I've always been a big fan of Henri Cartier-Bresson, considered the father of modern photojournalism. I truly believe his brilliant body of work has had a profound influence on all areas of photography from the artistic to the editorial or even corporate photography. Cartier-Bresson famously talked about ''The Decisive Moment'' when capturing an image unfolding in front of you.Today with the possibility of talking 20+ frames per second with digital mirrorless

cameras we sometimes forget this simple truth. For even in those 20+ frames there lies the decisive frame, frozen in time! To be honest the only time I shoot multiple frames a second it when I'm shooting an editorial sports event as a Getty Images freelancer, like a Real Madrid match at Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu stadium. Otherwise I like to shoot my Madrid corporate events with ''The ''decisive moment'' in mind. To quote the master: “To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson   

So shooting a networking break doesn't have to look boring at all. You can get really powerful images by staying true to the founding fathers of photojournalism and the fantastic leagcy they left us! 

Black and white photo of a smiling boy carrying wine bottles on a cobblestone street in vintage Paris.
Black and white photo of a smiling man in a coat holding a camera on a busy city street.
Black and white photo of a man leaping over a puddle near a fence, reflecting posters, in classic street photography style.