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View full image ↗Boris Eldagsen, PSEUDOMNESIA: The Electrician (2022), reproduced on the artist’s account of declining the 2023 photography award.
© Boris Eldagsen; artist’s website
Source · Sony World Photography Awards 2023: artist’s account ↗The start date is only the earliest event collected in this batch; it does not assert that the controversy began that day.
Case chronology
Eldagsen issues a statement declining a Sony photography award
In a statement dated April 13, Eldagsen declines the Open competition’s Creative category award and calls for discussion of boundaries between AI images and photography.
Research question
Records an artist’s use of AI imagery in a competition and award refusal to intervene in debates over photography categories and judging rules.
Related documents
DOC-0051Sony World Photography Awards 2023 / refusal statementSources
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ANTI-AI ARCHIVE. “Boris Eldagsen / PSEUDOMNESIA award-refusal intervention.” case-0037. Include this page’s URL and your access date when citing.