Thank you. As a photographer, I am exploring what I can still contribute in the era of AI. Working with real images and merging them into new realities. Forgetting all the rules about perspective for a moment, and setting aside “good taste”. Searching, playing, and according to the laws of serendipity, I will eventually find something that (regardless of aesthetics) will offer a new opportunity. There are now some photographers who have discovered a so-called secret “sauce” and are anxiously shielding it from the rest of the world. I like to share my “secrets” with everyone. And I dislike image makers who continue to cherish their myths. The general public likes to be deceived 🙂
I consider working on images, down to their material (in this case digital) substance, to be a natural artistic process and expression. Years ago, I saw an exhibition of images by Andreas Gursky. All of them had been created on a computer from photographic material. And haven’t we known since the photo collages of the 1920s, if not before, that perspectives can be multiplied? Your assembled images emphasise the process of seeing rather than theorising. That’s exactly what I like so much about them! I haven’t seen anything like this anywhere else yet.
Thanks. And yet I must humbly admit that the merging of images dates back to the nineteenth century. ‘Fading Away’ (1858) by Henri Peach Robinson is a perfect example of this. Photographers have always tried to create their own reality, sometimes based entirely on material reality, sometimes purely as fiction, sometimes in a hybrid form: merging pieces of reality to create something new. These are fascinating times, in any case.
I wasn’t familiar with Robertson’s image. Thanks for pointing it out. And you’re right, there are numerous ways to expand artistic expression in photography. There’s nothing wrong with it. I just think, that the joy of taking a picture in the wild, registering the surroundings, the sensory experience of being outside, on the move, observing, struggling to find the right frame, the perfect moment — that whole experience is lost when you generate your images on a computer. Prompting is a different game compared with photographing in the wild. I prefer the wild. But that’s a personal decision, not an artistic one. I completely understand when artists begin to colonize this new AI sphere, explore it and make it tangible.
I’m a big fan of your stitched panoramas. They emphasize the photographer’s mastery over his subjects without being unrealistic.
Thank you. As a photographer, I am exploring what I can still contribute in the era of AI. Working with real images and merging them into new realities. Forgetting all the rules about perspective for a moment, and setting aside “good taste”. Searching, playing, and according to the laws of serendipity, I will eventually find something that (regardless of aesthetics) will offer a new opportunity. There are now some photographers who have discovered a so-called secret “sauce” and are anxiously shielding it from the rest of the world. I like to share my “secrets” with everyone. And I dislike image makers who continue to cherish their myths. The general public likes to be deceived 🙂
I consider working on images, down to their material (in this case digital) substance, to be a natural artistic process and expression. Years ago, I saw an exhibition of images by Andreas Gursky. All of them had been created on a computer from photographic material. And haven’t we known since the photo collages of the 1920s, if not before, that perspectives can be multiplied? Your assembled images emphasise the process of seeing rather than theorising. That’s exactly what I like so much about them! I haven’t seen anything like this anywhere else yet.
Thanks. And yet I must humbly admit that the merging of images dates back to the nineteenth century. ‘Fading Away’ (1858) by Henri Peach Robinson is a perfect example of this. Photographers have always tried to create their own reality, sometimes based entirely on material reality, sometimes purely as fiction, sometimes in a hybrid form: merging pieces of reality to create something new. These are fascinating times, in any case.
I wasn’t familiar with Robertson’s image. Thanks for pointing it out. And you’re right, there are numerous ways to expand artistic expression in photography. There’s nothing wrong with it. I just think, that the joy of taking a picture in the wild, registering the surroundings, the sensory experience of being outside, on the move, observing, struggling to find the right frame, the perfect moment — that whole experience is lost when you generate your images on a computer. Prompting is a different game compared with photographing in the wild. I prefer the wild. But that’s a personal decision, not an artistic one. I completely understand when artists begin to colonize this new AI sphere, explore it and make it tangible.