Mathew Wylie, often described as a contemporary Texan street photographer, embraces imperfection through low-fi, mobile-led imagery that prioritises mood over technical precision. His grainy, atmospheric street scenes challenge the obsession with sharpness and control, encouraging photographers to respond instinctively rather than engineer perfection. Studying his work pushes me to question my own structured approach and to explore whether feeling, rather than refinement, can lead the image.

Jaume Llorens is the assigned photographer for my current course assignment. His work sits in the space between photography and constructed image-making, using subtly combined photographs to create landscapes that feel believable yet psychologically displaced. The images prioritise mood, ambiguity, and emotional coherence over literal description or technical perfection, encouraging slower looking and open interpretation. The assignment is prompting me to explore uncertainty, simplification, and image combination in my own work, and to question how far an image can be pushed away from straight representation before it loses its photographic truth.