“Everywhere I look, and most of the time I look,” Bert Hardy said, “I see photographs.” His 28-year career attests to it. In 1935, Hardy made a name for himself at just 23, when he photographed King George V and Queen Mary passing in their carriage during the Silver Jubilee celebrations. In the early 1940s, Hardy was hired by Tom Hopkinson, editor of the influential Picture Post. For Hopkinson he chronicled the mass disruption of W.W. II—in Cardiff, Liverpool, Belfast, and Glasgow. When the war ended, Hardy set his sights on poignant portraits of British life at all levels. Hardy didn’t stay in Europe for long. In the 1950s, he traveled to Asia to chronicle the Korean War, then returned for the Vietnam War after that. “[He was] the nearest to an all-round cameraman I ever worked with,” Hopkinson once said. “There were few assignments—except perhaps for theater and ballet—on which I wouldn’t have wished to send him.” —Elena Clavarino