Earth stories through images
Joy's photographs bring a sense of wild places and freedom. She captures both small intimate glimpses to imposing animals and landscapes. Her images are photographed in a realistic style with attention to detail that invites you to revisit the image and discover something new every time.
My Journey to Here
Some of Joy’s earliest memories are family photo night. We would gather to watch my dad’s slides projected on a home screen. The screen was an old one in a metal tube that you had to unroll and hook onto a stand being careful not to catch your fingers. Each image had good memories and laughter from a moment in time accompanied by the click-clack of the slide carousel advancing and inevitably jamming.
As soon as Joy was old enough, she picked up her dad’s Canon F1 and started taking photos of her own. Being science-minded, Joy also took on the chemistry of the dark room. It was an exciting reveal every time the image came into view on the photo paper.
This fascination and these memories were behind her choice to view the world through photography. On her first solo overseas trip, her camera bag was fully stocked as she ventured on safari in Africa. From there, she discovered the power of capturing sights and sounds of the natural world in a single, perfect moment to tell a whole story.
Meanwhile, her day job has taught her about the impermanence of the world around us. Faced with multiple pressures from development, land use, natural disasters, climate change and others, what we see today may not be there tomorrow. Joy’s photography is influenced by this knowledge.
Today, Joy uses her photography to bring these stories and feelings to a wider audience. Her goal with her images is to strike a chord with the viewer. In some cases, it is a sense of wonder and beauty. In other cases, it may be a sense of curiosity and exploration.
The natural world has endless stories and I look forward to telling more of them.
