I’ve always loved photography, both digital and analog — but their purposes have shifted with time.
Today, as in the past, we use analog images on negatives with heavy grain — then to capture reality as precisely as possible, now to prove it ever happened. Back then, it always had to be ever more advanced graphics to depict moments as realistically as possible. Yet due to AI, these images — despite their closeness to reality — feel less real than the reality-distant images of film negatives. The grainy unreality of film negatives holds more truth than the sharp precision of digital imagery, which simulates reality so perfectly that it begins to lose its weight.