{"id":2633,"date":"2025-04-18T08:16:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T08:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darkopavic.art\/?p=2633"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:22:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T08:22:35","slug":"is-ai-photography-still-photography-and-is-it-still-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkopavic.art\/?p=2633","title":{"rendered":"Is AI Photography Still Photography? And Is It Still Art?"},"content":{"rendered":"

After finishing my Streets of Chicago<\/em><\/a> series, I continued exploring new ways of working with AI \u2014 something I consider a form of posthuman co-creation. Following my journey through Japan, I began developing a new project: street photography co-created with AI.<\/p>\n

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Even the title alone raises obvious contradictions. Can AI help create street photography \u2014 something traditionally grounded in real-life, spontaneous moments? And if a street photograph is generated by AI, can we still call it photography?<\/p>\n

These questions led me to an important realization: when the technology is this advanced, the only real difference between AI-generated photography and traditional photography lies in our perception \u2014 in our consciousness<\/em> about its origins.<\/p>\n

We tend to believe that AI-based images aren\u2019t \u201creal,\u201d because the moment they depict never actually happened. Meanwhile, we value traditional photography because we assume it captures something that did happen, a moment frozen in time. But in truth, both<\/em> are just images. And both can evoke emotion, spark thought, and trigger memory \u2014 regardless of how they were made.<\/p>\n

If I didn\u2019t tell you a photograph was created with AI, you might assume it was a genuine scene captured through a lens. That\u2019s the power of perception. The difference lies not in the image, but in the story behind it \u2014 in the narrative of what is considered \u201creal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Our understanding of authenticity is rooted in history. We tend to value something more if we believe it really happened \u2014 even if we didn\u2019t witness it ourselves. But curiously, we don\u2019t apply the same logic to painting. When a painter creates from pure fantasy \u2014 even in abstraction \u2014 we still recognize it as art.<\/p>\n

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So maybe the real question isn\u2019t what is art<\/em>, but does art have to reflect reality?<\/em> Does it have to document something that exists \u2014 even if it’s immaterial, like an emotion?<\/p>\n

Are your thoughts art?<\/p>\n

If the answer is yes, then the thoughts and imagination expressed through AI can be art as well.<\/p>\n

And if you still believe AI has no imagination, no thoughts of its own \u2014 I invite you to look at Streets of Chicago<\/em><\/a>. That project proved to me, and hopefully to others, that something deeper is happening in this collaboration between human and machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After finishing my Streets of Chicago series, I continued exploring new ways of working with AI \u2014 something I consider a form of posthuman co-creation. Following my journey through Japan, I began developing a new project: street photography co-created with AI. Even the title alone raises obvious contradictions. Can AI help create street photography \u2014… <\/p>\n

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