Moment Photography

Sharpness is a Bourgeois Concept

It's time for another image in the Captured Moments series, although that title may be changing.

I've never been a fan of the phrase “street photography”, I have always found it to encompass to many elements into it. Is it architecture, people doing nothing on the streets, people doing things on the streets, is it portraits taken on the streets, the answer is probably yes to all of these.

The Godfather of street photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson coined the phrase “The Decisive Moment” the boiled down essence of this is, capturing a fleeting instant that reveals deeper meaning or emotion in a scene.

So let's called it Moment Photography, a single moment caught in a single frame.

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This image was captured in Waterloo station.

I just happened to see what was happening and snapped one frame. The image is slightly blurred mainly because I wasn’t expecting to be taking an image in the station where it is quite dim and I had the aperture set to the street photographers default of f8. I never stopped to take this, it was a walk by and keep moving and that accounts for the blur.

You can see from the guy's face that he knows that the pain is about to be unleashed.

Why this couple decided that attempting to bust a spot in the middle of Waterloo station was a good idea I don't know but it definitely gave me a decisive moment for this image.