Lucrecia Emilia Ludovica Bermúdez De Castro Guerrero

Lucrecia Emilia Ludovica Bermúdez De Castro Guerrero

I have written about Artificial Intelligence here but I want to continue with the subject to keep myself from thinking of the chaos in my house since it flooded from top to bottom in late May. The holiday weekend has prevented me from getting an ultrasound on my very sick cat Niño. I am worried.

Thus with this blue portrait as an opening I will use it to express my case that AI will not affect what is left of my life in my photography. I do not shoot sunsets, sunrises, pristine nature, flower macros (I believe my flower scans are different), telephoto “captures”, architectural negative space (whatever that is ) or street shots.

I shoot portraits. I think that my portraits are safe from manipulation because of my relative anonymity. As an example some algorithm will have to find a portrait of my granddaughter to convert it to a portrait a la Alex.

I don’t see AI doing a Gregory Peck modified to make him look like Taylor Swift. The people working or interested in AI would not know who Gregory Peck is.

Ultimately I will simply repeat what Harvard architect and friend Abraham Rogatnick told me a year before he died. “I am not long for this world and I am glad for it.”

What is it about this blue (I added the colour with my 19-year-old Photoshop) portrait that I took  with Kodak b+w Infrared Film that makes it impossible for me to forget it even if I have lost all memory of the woman? 

I wonder if AI can penetrate a person's soul in the same way that this one seems to do so?