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Images Under Influence: How AI Has Slipped Into Our Everyday Photography

2025 is the year of the rise of artificial intelligence. While remaining unsettling, it has quietly infiltrated the very practice of photography, influencing aesthetic choices, enriching visual narratives, automating tasks once performed manually, and opening new narrative territories—for amateurs and professionals alike.

November 28, 2025

Friday November 28, 2025

Summary

2025 is the year of the rise of artificial intelligence. While remaining unsettling, it has quietly infiltrated the very practice of photography, influencing aesthetic choices, enriching visual narratives, automating tasks once performed manually, and opening new narrative territories—for amateurs and professionals alike.

By Jonas Cuénin

Visual artist Hana Katoba embraces AI as a companion rather than a competitor, walking in its uncertainty to rediscover her own way of seeing. The result is a practice where the fantasy of the digital meets the intimacy of creativity. Here she shares her personal vision and creative process.

By Jonas Cuénin

For decades, the camera provided a fragile contract with reality: a frame, a shutter, a trace of light. Not a guarantee of truth — but an agreement that something once stood in front of the lens. Today, writer and educator Fred Ritchin sees that contract collapsing under the weight of synthetic imagery.

By Jonas Cuénin

A new book entitled Paris: A Love Story 1948-1952 sheds light on how American photographer Todd Webb fell in love with Paris when he was 44. Following in the footsteps of Eugene Atget, he walked the streets of a city emerging from the scars of occupation,and from 1948 to 1952 created an intimate picture of the city, its people,cafés,streets and boulevards.

By Bill Shapiro

Riccardo Fregoso’s new book Winter Light opens the door onto a domestic world wrapped in an aura of Magical Realism.

By Gaia Squarci

As the holiday season approaches, WhiteWall reminds us that some memories deserve a more lasting existence than the one granted by a smartphone screen.

By Blind Magazine

In the cannon of documentary photographers, Mary Ellen Mark ranks as one of the most important. In 2023, a book and exhibition, Encounters, provided both a cross section of her life’s work focusing on 5 of her iconic photo series whose publication in book form significantly contributed to Mark’s reputation.

By Robert E. Gerhardt

In 2023, the groundbreaking Jamaican-British photographer came full circle with a four decade retrospective at Autograph in London.

By Miss Rosen

Blind supports the production of visual stories and invites all photographers to submit their portfolios.

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