The impact of AI on art and artists, and by extension, on humanity's perception of its creative uniqueness, has been a topic of discussion since AI emerged prominently in recent years. I've long argued that, paradoxically, AI will serve as a tool to reconnect us with our shared

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Just spent a brilliant few days in the Baltic port city of @Gdansk in northern #Poland Beyond the great restaurants and striking architecture, this place is steeped in history. Do zobaczenia wkrótce 🇵🇱

There is nothing more intricate or intimate than a human face. It is the most public part of us.
And the most private. Link to Substack post: https://t.co/7Pr7uoRxye

A portrait shouldn’t just describe someone. It should feel like them. Link to my Substack: https://t.co/5Wda79ylp7

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Latest Substack on 'The Republic of Hysterica'. How advertising trained itself to reward 'making' over thinking. And why AI is now exposing the cost. https://t.co/rj3lPgWbjo

Latest post on my Substack 'The Long Exposure'. Please visit when you have 'time'. https://t.co/oUpfjIerf7

If you open a laptop or stare at a screen every morning, you are a #knowledgeworker. On #LinkedIn, that’s most of us. We’re told knowledge is power. But how much do you understand about the power of AI to replace what you currently do? At this point, there are really only two

This is my new Substack blog about how my love of still photography is still very much alive. It's called 'The Long Exposure' The Long Exposure is where I put photographs that needed time. To be made. To be seen. To be understood. This isn’t content. It’s a celebration of the

We started @UnusualCasting in 2016, before identity politics and #DEI became a thing. Back then the problem felt simpler. #fashionphotography had become boring, narrow, and self-referential. There were extraordinary faces everywhere. Different. Unusual. And very little

Why this is my favourite ad of all time. https://t.co/iWxAWXA39p

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As a late ‘Boomer’ (I was born in 1961), I experienced the economic good times of the 80s and 90s, when meritocracy and hard work really did pay off. Especially in advertising, where winning awards for creative campaigns could double your salary overnight. I have sons who fall

I’m old enough to remember a @WIRED Magazine editorial, back in the 90s, gushing enthusiastically about the nascent online world as the end of gatekeeping and the dawn of a new era of endless freedom for creativity and creative people. Three decades later, we have fifty Silicon

Happy #analogue New Year. Is this the year the creative craft empire strikes back? Word on the street is that print is returning, along with analogue #photography and #filmmaking. A quiet pushback against the power of #AI, a resistance to being seduced by the algorithmic dark

Gen AI apps Nano Banana and Higgsfield become so good that ‘Seeing is believing’ is about to become a quaint vestige of a bygone era. In our current news cycle, the warmongers have the megaphone. But that, I believe, is a distraction. With the 4th industrial revolution kicking

2025 in pictures. June. Online debate around the impact of #AI finally reaches fever pitch after years of denial and indifference.
Reality has landed. AI is not a toy.
It’s not even a tool.
It’s a paradigm shift. It can conjure entire worlds in seconds. So convincing you’d