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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.
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 ↗What changed
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.
This records the artist’s own statement; promotional claims such as “first” are not adopted without comparative verification.
Editorial research question
Editorial interpretation: document how an artist enters an AI image and refuses an award to intervene in discussions of photographic categories and judging rules.
This is an editorial interpretation or question, separate from factual statements.
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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.
SRC-0063STATEMENT 13.4.23; UPDATE 14.4.23
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