Street Photography at a Crossroads as Privacy Concerns Mount in the Digital Age
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Street photography is booming but also facing backlash and restrictions due to privacy concerns in the digital age where images spread rapidly.
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Social media has changed notions of privacy and created pressure to craft idealized online personas, fueling self-envy and loneliness.
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Promptography using AI to generate fake but impressive street photos threatens actual street photography capturing real moments.
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As the real and artificial blur through filters and AI, street photography highlights genuine reality.
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We need street photography and real human stories to maintain memory and meaning versus a dystopia of simulations and projections.