Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.

It was one of the most challenging photo-montages ever created because there were a sizeable live crowd guards and other dignitaries in front of his camera. His first big sale came when he photographed King George V and Queen Mary in a passing carriage and sold 200 small prints of his best view of the King. He later went on the cover the Korean War along with journalist James Cameron for Picture Post reporting on United Nations atrocities[citation needed] at Pusan in 1950 and later and on that war's turning point the Battle of Inchon photojournalism for which he won the Missouri Pictures of the Year Award.

Three of Hardy's photos were used in Edward Steichen's famous Family of Man exhibition and book though not his favorite photo —which shows two street urchins off on a lark in Gorbals —it nevertheless has come to represent Hardy's documentary skill. Bert Hardy (19 May 1913 — 3 July 1995) was a documentary and press photographer known for his work publiBert Hardyd in the Picture Post magazine between 1941 and 1957. A memorial plaque honouring him is in the journalists' church St Bride's Fleet Street London.