Love this! Gęsicka uses intentionally warped photographs to express the warping of reality itself in today's world. The artist writes, "Intentionally placing false information in texts that are intended to expand knowledge or verify facts may raise a lot of controversy. On the other hand, we live in times of manipulation, where it is common to publish edited photographs, and soon it will be equally common to generate AI images as illustrations for articles or daily news. Knowledge becomes something volatile and uncertain, and we are left with the daily search for what is true." In this work, "truth" is both hidden and exposed via the distortion.
Beautifully put. That tension between truth and distortion is exactly what makes her work so relevant now — it does not simply depict manipulation, it makes us feel its instability. And perhaps that is one of photography’s most important roles today: not only to show the world, but also to question how the world is being shown.
Alexander, I think that if photography were only about faithful recording, half of its history would disappear. The medium has always included interpretation, construction, manipulation, and illusion. You may not like this kind of work, but that doesn’t make it “not photography.”
Photography by design is an image drawn by light. 'Found and archival images' that were reshaped are not photographs. Just as AI-generated images are not photographs either. And it doesn't matter whether it is based on real photography or not.
Love this! Gęsicka uses intentionally warped photographs to express the warping of reality itself in today's world. The artist writes, "Intentionally placing false information in texts that are intended to expand knowledge or verify facts may raise a lot of controversy. On the other hand, we live in times of manipulation, where it is common to publish edited photographs, and soon it will be equally common to generate AI images as illustrations for articles or daily news. Knowledge becomes something volatile and uncertain, and we are left with the daily search for what is true." In this work, "truth" is both hidden and exposed via the distortion.
Beautifully put. That tension between truth and distortion is exactly what makes her work so relevant now — it does not simply depict manipulation, it makes us feel its instability. And perhaps that is one of photography’s most important roles today: not only to show the world, but also to question how the world is being shown.
This is not photography.
Alexander, I think that if photography were only about faithful recording, half of its history would disappear. The medium has always included interpretation, construction, manipulation, and illusion. You may not like this kind of work, but that doesn’t make it “not photography.”
Photography by design is an image drawn by light. 'Found and archival images' that were reshaped are not photographs. Just as AI-generated images are not photographs either. And it doesn't matter whether it is based on real photography or not.
How do you think, is this photography or not?
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