1998 Cyprus
2026
My home office contains many files, albums, and boxes of prints and negatives from my analogue photography days—quietly gathering dust and rarely revisited. These images represent not just photographs, but fragments of journeys, places, and moments that have, over time, faded from memory.“Revisiting the Past” is a long-term project to digitise this archive and rediscover it through a contemporary lens. Advances in digitisation now allow these images to be preserved, enhanced, and reinterpreted in ways that were simply not possible when they were first taken. In many cases, the original locations and stories are no longer clear, but modern tools such as visual search and image recognition offer the intriguing possibility of reconnecting with those lost contexts.This project is not simply about restoration—it is about reinterpretation. While the original images were captured on colour film, I find myself drawn to reworking them in black and white, reflecting my current photographic style and sensibilities. Stripping away colour allows a renewed focus on form, light, texture, and composition—elements that I may not have fully appreciated at the time of capture.These photographs were taken before I had any real awareness of post-processing as part of the creative process. Revisiting them now provides an opportunity to apply the techniques and discipline I have since developed—refining composition through cropping, balancing tones, and guiding the viewer’s eye more deliberately.In doing so, I am not seeking to “correct” the past, but to enter into a dialogue with it: to understand how I saw the world then, and how I see it now. Some images may remain as simple records of a moment; others may evolve into something entirely new.Ultimately, this project is both an act of preservation and a creative exploration—a way of bridging past and present, and of discovering whether the photographer I was has anything to say to the photographer I have become.