TITLE: Man at Grand Central

My image entitled Man at Grand Central is a homage to Henri Cartier Bresson, his use of light and shadow, and the decisive moment. The image was revealed to me as I was street shooting in downtown Los Angeles early one morning. The image unfolded as the man sat down and the light poured in through the large open door to his right, creating a great pattern of light.

As I composed the image using the reflection in a stainless steel table, the mysterious figure appeared at the exact moment that I tripped the shutter. The moment I captured the image, I knew I had captured something special. A slice of life that for one split second had been frozen in time.

AUTHOR: Brian Malloy (United States)

Brian Malloy is a working photographer from the Boston area. Since 1989 he has been tripping the shutter of a camera, capturing people, places and things along the way. His obsession with creating images started when he took a basic photography class, and this led to spending countless hours in the darkroom smelling like chemicals. After running out of photography classes in college and graduating with a business degree he enrolled in the New England School of Photography. At NESOP he learned all he could from his professors and fellow students, and in 1993 started out on his own. Since then he has made a living out of doing what he loves every day and wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. Only recently has he started to show his work in group shows, and is working towards his first solo show of his work documenting the religious pageantry of Spain’s Holy Week.s