True Colours: Photographer 7 | Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson, was a French photographer known for his master class of candid photography before being named as the father of the photojournalism. His phrase the 'decisive moment' has a great influence among photographers. Then important lesson about the 'decisive moment' is that the best opportunities often flash before our eyes and we must be ready at all times to capture the moments.

Cartier-Bresson's images are sometimes shot by random but other times he had to wait for the right person to pass by to complete the scenes. He usually applied geometrical elements in his images. We can see the integration of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines, curves, shadows and etc. He likes to capture the subject along his travel in places such as India, Europe, China, the United States, as well as Africa. Through his work, we observe people of different cultures telling stories that sometimes we encounter in our daily life and other times we had never seen.