Pennings Foundation - AI: Reality is the new fiction

'Reality is the new fiction' 

Although many still believe it, photography has never really been able to show the truth; photography is by nature subjective and has to deal with many distortions and relies on a picture history that is not global. Photography is a joy but has also ended up in a vortex of changes and technological disruptions. And now the dizzyingly fast developments of Artificial intelligence (AI) are coming on top of that. Lars Boering takes you through a history of photography, technological developments and makes you think about AI and images. 

What can we, or should we, still believe? Is photography able to survive now that we no longer know what we see and/or believe? Not looking for the truth that is not there in photography, but looking for reliable information in a world where nothing is what it seems, and not even that. 

Lars Boering (1969) studied Political science and Communication sciences at Amsterdam University. He is an advisor on photography, teacher, collector and consultant. He is the Director of the European Journalism Centre and is founder of Triggertale.com, a platform for visual communication and storytelling. He has brought together all professional photographers in DuPho and created the talk show 'De donkere Kamer'. From 2015 till 2021 he led World Press Photo Foundation and has transformed it into an organization that is now more than a contest. Currently he is a member of the working group that is designing and defining a global Artificial intelligence charter for journalism.