Redux (2023) — a ‘MJW Photography’ recap

I’ve been taking nature and landscape photos since my early teenage years, around 2009. I remember vividly there was a new mobile phone on the market called the Sony Ericsson Satio, which I got purely because it had (at the time) a revolutionary 12.1 megapixel camera. It ignited a spark of curiosity within me that started out as snapping pictures of relatively mundane things around the house just to explore them at different scales and perspectives.

All these years later, I still love taking photographs; my interest in it has shifted toward the Nature and Landscape region of the spectrum. Photos are universal and are inherently unique; no two are ever the same. As someone who is often painfully shy as well as being an introvert, they’ve always been the easiest subjects to capture.

Here is a collection of photos I published a couple of years ago in an album called Redux; they are pieces of work, both new and old, that I went back to and retouched with the experience that I’d developed since they were originally taken. Attached to them are titles that are related to what you’re seeing or feeling with that piece; some are references to moments in my personal life, others are more abstract and even metaphorical.