2023
“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
~ Karl Lagerfeld
“The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.”
~ Susan Meiselas
Another change of employer in late 2022 brought back the possibility of longer transatlantic trips, in particular, one to Bologna and Florence in 2023. The possibility of AI image generation and/or manipulation became an creative and ethical conundrum.
While I appreciate that AI focus correction saved one of my favorite images from 2023, I am resolved not to use it again. See the blog post, “Successful Street Photo or AI cheat?” on Medium for a longer discussion of that one image.
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