The Exhibition Magical Circumstantial is the fortuitous encounter between two independent coincidences, a sort of confluence of circumstances, which produces a short circuit, a burst of meaning or the effect of a revelation.
When do you know you have to take a picture? How do you know the time is right? How do you know that this is your moment? There is no right time. When you are there with your camera and you feel that this is your moment, then it is the right time to shoot. As Henri Cartier Bresson said, that is the decisive moment.
For the Magical Circumstantial Exhibition the technique or the camera you use is not important, what matters is what you feel, the connection that is created between the photographer and the instant captured. The photo must be experienced, it must be felt.
Photography is the result of the photographer's life and experiences, of the books he/she reads, of the music he/she listens to, everything influences and is reflected in the shot.
We must be sensitive, try to guess, be intuitive: rely on the "objective case" of which Breton spoke. And the camera is a wonderful tool for capturing that "objective case”.
Henri Cartier Bresson
Every moment is new, choose your moment before it fades away and show it to the world, in our international photo exhibition.
Established in 1994, The Coningsby Gallery is excellently located at 30 Tottenham Street, London W1, in the thriving area of Fitzrovia (West Bloomsbury) with Charlotte Street just round the corner - right in the heart of London’s cultural West End. The area is renowned for its visual and performing arts, literary connections, museums, leading hotels and excellent shops and boutiques.
