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When Seeing Isn’t Believing: Why Photography Needs Community More Than Ever
At a moment when generative A.I. is threatening photography's power to document reality and stimulate discourse, FotoFocus's executive director Katherine Ryckman Siegwarth argues that convening around the medium is more important than ever.
With daily life increasingly being experienced through digital mediation—be it a screen in our pocket, at our desk, or in public spaces—staying connected to primary and site-specific encounters has taken on added significance. The trend for so long has seemingly been to make everything and anything virtual, with culture, the arts and specifically photography being swept up along the way.
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New forms of digital technology have transformed the common conception of what photography is and can do—from something made by artists and industry professionals to something everyone does each and every day. In the not-too-distant past, photographs made for the purposes of journalism and the daily news cycle could be presented to the public as documentary records of events. Though not without bias, the fact of their having been made in the time and place that a caption indicated was taken for granted and seldom challenged, thus allowing for........