A NEW DAWN
A couple of months ago, French photo magazine Reponses Photo published a portrait on its front cover – no big deal you might be thinking. The image, which the mag described as a “photo of an old sailor at night in front of his boat taken on an analog medium format camera,” seemed a captivating portrait, but little else – the kind of thing we’ve all seen on magazine covers for decades. However this was no ordinary portrait of a fisherman on a wharf. Its title was actually the text prompt that was used to create it in image synthesiser Midjourney. Reponses Photo published the shot, an artificial creation, as an experiment of sorts – would people even notice that the image was not a photo at all, and perhaps more…
