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Photography or ‘promptography’: a year on from the Sony Awards AI furore, what is the nuanced view?

Boris Eldagsen made waves in 2023 by refusing a prize in order to highlight the use of text-to-image models in art photography. A new show in London seeks to reframe the debate

Simon Bainbridge
3 May 2024
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Boris Eldagsen, Pseudomnesia: The Electrician (2022). Eldagsen turned down a Sony award for this AI-generated image, to make the point that ‘AI is not photography’ © Boris Eldagsen, courtesy Sony World Photography Award