there are no children here.
“For thousands of years men dreamed of pacts with demons. Only now are such things possible. And what would you be paid with? What would your price be, for aiding this thing to free itself and grow?”
- William Gibson
Street photography is fraught with ethical questions, no more so than when its subjects are children. Images can be widely distributed in seconds, and it is disturbingly easy for bad actors to find where a child might live. Consequently, children in these photos have been removed using AI, leaving only fragments and warped surroundings.
Use of AI, however, presents its own set of moral and ethical dilemmas. Where did its data come from? How was it collected? Is it acceptable to use AI in any original art, under any circumstances? And what will its effects be on future generations?
there are no children here, therefore, has a triple meaning: the erasure of children from the photographs themselves; the unknown effects on children of future generations; and the recognition that, in the boardrooms of the companies building AI, there are no children—only incautious adults.
prints.
Lucia archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Baryta Satin
12” x 18” print on 13” x 19” sheet
Edition of 9 + 1 AP
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