Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French artist and street photographer who was considered the master of candid photography and influenced many other photographers to take images in the style of street photography such as William Klein. Cartier-Bresson took great care and interest in capturing human activity and wanted to capture ‘everyday’ in his images. He wanted to capture the “decisive moment” so he would take his images of subjects without their knowledge, which created these unique and mysterious images as the viewers are left to interpret what is happening in the image.

Henri Cartier-Bresson created a book called “The Decisive Moment” presenting his images. “The Decisive moment” became Cartier-Bresson’s moto and in a way his own style of photography as he believed that there was a ‘decisive moment ‘in every scene laid before a photographer. He captured unique images, waiting for the decisive moment that had a sense of awe about them.

I will be using the work of Cartier Bresson as inspiration when taking my images around St Malo