Henri Cartier Bresson took one of the most famous photos in modern photographic reportage - titled
Juvisy France (1938). It shows four people, their backs to the camera, having a picnic on a river bank, and it can be seen at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It's one of my favourite photos.
So, you can imagine how I felt seeing the scene above. It was like I was viewing an echo of the Juvisy image. I managed to get round the back of the people and got this shot.
Of course, when I got back home and checked, I realised the composition wasn't as much like that of the original (pictured right) as I'd thought, which was a disappointment...
But the wonder is how certain striking images never leave us. I hadn't come across the original Cartier Bresson image in ten years probably - and yet, there it was, embedded in my mind.
