As AI image generators rise, the value of film photography holds strong.
The camera is a reasonably recent image-creation tool; compared to millennia of paintings, drawings, carvings, and illustrations, we have only a few hundred years of photographs and photographic development. What photography offers compared to those ancient arts is immediacy and accuracy.
offers an incredible value proposition. The only ability needed from the operator is translation, in order to describe and refine the right adjectives and parameters leading to the desired results. In that courtroom setting even a very eloquently articulated AI formulation from eyewitness testimony would be less valuable than a CCTV recording, or mobile phone snapshot. Imagine for a moment any historical photograph you have seen, hold it in your mind and think about how well you can describe what you are thinking about.
If I make a claim in one of my photo essays that I documented something in another country, then I need the plane tickets to back that up. I need the unbroken chain of events that saw me travel, arrive, work, and make the images I have claimed to make. My workflow with film offers me a way to keep this chain of custody entirely physical, with me present at every stage from exposure to development to print, without ever needing to involve a digital electronic step.
Photoshop fakery in the digital era is common, although frauds do not tend to last long. Reverse image search software makes it easy to see whether anyone else is claiming an image as their own, including when “pieces” of a photograph are used. Perhaps the most blatant example of this kind of fraud iswho passed off collages of his own work spliced together with work from other photographers, as well as straight up passing off work by other photographers as his own.
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