Henri Cartier Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson is the personification of passion and talent. Listening to him describe the world of photography and photojournalism and what it means for him made me excited and see a multitude of possibilities in the medium of photography for expression and art.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Cartier-Bresson, a man self-described as impulsive, illustrates the beauty in acting in the moment and losing yourself to a situation to capture it for what it really is. I think that is beautiful. You can really see the connection and care in each and every one of his photos…looking at them you just know he’s got it — got what photojournalism is all about — people, places, shapes, space, time.

A lover of geometry, Cartier-Bresson’s photos portal the visual pleasure he finds in design — in shapes and shades and everything ‘fitting together.’ You know that feeling you get when editing a photo and you say to yourself ‘ah, yes thats it’ — this feeling is almost an in instilled talent that Cartier-Bresson holds, but with much more rawness. “Life is once, forever” he says, and probably thinks to himself in those moments of witnessing life. Forgetting himself whilst also being himself enables him to lucidly and freely be in the moment, and see things with an open eye. His camera is a weapon, photography a way of shouting the way he feels with just one, precise click.