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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.
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Source · Sony World Photography Awards 2023: artist’s account ↗Material description
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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.
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