THE HUMAN AND THE MACHINE - A FIRST ATTEMPT AT SETTING A POSITION ON AI AND PHOTOGRAPHY

In this video I set out my position on why AI is no threat to documentary photographers and will enhance the humanity of the medium.

AI is here and photographers need to respond to it. That isn’t to say that AI needs to be part of all the photographic processes (although no doubt it will touch on most things we do in photography - from evaluating images to dissemination) but it need not be part of the original act. I argue that AI will enhance the the way we value the inherent ‘humanity’ of the photographic process.