So here is the controversial image. Strangely titled The Electrician it represents two women in a discreet embrace hemmed with black and white romanticism, evoking the 1930s.
Photographer Boris Eldagsen (54 years old) created it with generative artificial intelligence. It appears among the images and video which open the exhibition at L a Chambre, in Strasbourg. This first part is called “You’re Missing Something and You Know It.”
Pioneer and thinker of “promptography”
Two years ago, The Electrician won an award at the famous Sony World Photography Awards. The German artist said he informed the organizers that his photo had been generated by AI. “My goal was to provoke a debate. I didn’t want to receive the prize, says Boris Eldagsen. I asked the organizers to have a round table to talk about it, but they…
