MAGAZINE #132
2026/05

Anna Schober-de Graaf

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2026/05

EIKON #132 |​ WHERE IS PHOTOGRAPHY NOW?


Intimate Experience, Dream Worlds and Popular Image Practices at the Threshold between Documentary Photography and AI-Generated Images

Artists: Fabio Bucciarelli | Maurice Blackburn Lawyers

Anna Schober-de Graaf explores the potential of AI-generated photography, a potential that has been overshadowed by fears of manipulation in visual representations.
Where documentary photography reaches its limits, personal experiences of violence can be visualised through AI-generated images. In this way, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers adds a visual dimension to the personal stories of their clients.

in EIKON #132
Language | German / English
Size | 280 x 210 mm
ISBN | 978-3-904083-26-3
104 Pages
Prize: € 18,00 (inkl. 10% USt)

Where does photography stand today? In one sense, it remains where it has always been: photography still concerns itself with seeing visible phenomena – things, bodies, events, and activities – in new and different ways.
Anna Schober-de Graaf

At the same time, however, we currently find ourselves at an epochal threshold where a new technology, in the form of AI-supported machine learning programs, is becoming widespread – programs that also generate images based on the conventions of documentary photography.
Anna Schober-de Graaf