To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

~Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier Bressom is considered one of the "fathers" of photojournalism and was also highly skilled in candid photographs and street photography, a relation of photojournalism. Of course, photojournalism heavily includes catastrophic and historical events (and let's face it, the news is usually bad news).

Photojournalism is generally the name for the photographs found in your everyday ("hard news") newspaper! Also the form is not restricted to this type of published print. 

Photograph 'Newspaper Rack' by me (Clare Louise).

Bressom wanted to recognise 'the significance if an event' with his photography.

Street Photography by Henri Cartier Bressom;

Two boys-perhaps brothers? Sheltering together form the weather. Maybe they are on their way home form school...

 

Two ladies crossing the road, both looking unimpressed-but maybe these are their natural relaxed faces or it's just their concentration on the apparent load of oncoming traffic...

My own significant event:

Photograph 'Street Protesters' by me (Clare Louise).

A street protest in the city centre of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Police are patrolling and controlling the seemingly peaceful march of locals. In a lot of cases for the sake of benefits (although I don't understand the politics  many Argentines on government support have to march and protest on days they are told too or apparently their financial support suffers.

That's what I'm told....

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

~Henri Cartier-Bresson