When I first stumbled upon Matt Stuart’s photography work it was by discovering the picture above. It blew my mind. I still have to find another photographs that seizes the moment in a similar way and, at the same time, features such an amazing composition. Searching for more information about his work I found a post on “B” in which Matt reveals the story behind this image: “This is one of my favorite photos and one that I get most compliments on. I shot it in Trafalgar Square. Unusually I didn’t take this photo on a Leica. I was using a Canon film SLR. The Leica was in repair. I knelt down on the step and focused my camera on the white wall in the background. I was hoping to get lots of black legs walking along in various graphic shapes. I had been bent over with my bum in the air for about half an hour when a rather confident pigeon walked past. I instinctively shot this frame but as I was doing it I noticed something had happened with the human legs as well. It all happened so quickly that I wasn’t exactly sure what I had got but something felt right. When I received my contact sheets back I was delighted to have found the legs within the legs and the way that the coats mimicked the pigeon’s tail. I like to think that humans aren’t the only ones that need to get up early to go to work.”

Matt Stuart, who mentions Garry Winogrand, Joel Meyerowitz, Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Leonard Freed and Tony Ray-Jones as his main influences, shoots street photography and commercial work in London. He is a member of In-Public, an online street photography site. More of his photography can be seen on that site, and on his personal site. He is working on a book of photographs taken in London.