The Act of Seeing

The “decisive moment” is a notion that defines that fraction of a second in which all the elements in front of the photographer reach maximum intensity and formal perfection. At that moment, the photographer, just like a hunter, must release the shutter of his camera. This term is associated with the name of Henri Cartier-Bresson, who has a book whose title in English bears this name. In the series "The Act of Seeing", I try to situate the “decisive moment” and the place in which it occurred in a succession of moments that preceded and followed it, seen from different perspectives in space and time.