Tony Bridge Photographer

About

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Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it.

-Henri Cartier-Bresson

I was drawn to music that addressed the spirit, probably
because my own needed to be addressed.
- Bruce Springsteen

I guess I have been coming to the conclusion, strange though it may seem, that the humble snapshot may possibly be the most important form of photography and that documenting the everyday is, in many ways, photography’s most important function.

I am continually fascinated by my own culture, by the way it is changing, and the challenge of fixing the fading footprints of the culture in which I find myself in an image made in the present.

I want to lift a corner of the blanket, to see under the surface, to capture the human journey that is so beautifully encoded in its daily rituals.

The art of photography lies in framing, in organisation and the Moment. Wonderful things can happen while the shutter is closed. I never cease to be fascinated by the possibilities.
Why do I photograph?
Perhaps I hope to see God looking back at me from one of my images.