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A tale of two images.
With Lange’s photograph, there was a woman, a photographer, and a moment they shared. With Eldagsen’s image, the people and the moment were generated.
That difference matters.
Migrant Mother
Photograph · 1936
Dorothea Lange photographed Florence Owens Thompson and her children in Nipomo, California, during the Great Depression. The image records a moment in a family’s life.
Photographer: Dorothea Lange
Subject: Florence Owens Thompson and her children
The Electrician
AI-generated image
Boris Eldagsen created this image with generative AI. Its subjects were not people who sat for a photograph.
The image won the Creative category of the Open competition at the 2023 Sony World Photography Awards. Eldagsen declined the award.
Artist: Boris Eldagsen
When human creation matters to your audience, how the work was made belongs in the story.
The people behind the work.
Photographs by Casey Templeton, a member of the VerifiedHuman Collective.
Human Is the New Vinyl
Micah Voraritskul explores why human creativity matters in a world of effortless generation.
AI isn’t evil. AI is easy. And easy has a way of winning—even when it shouldn’t.
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