Notes of a MetaPhotographer
Fred RitchinThe potentials of photography and other visual media, including AI, after fifty years of writing, thinking, editing and experimenting in the field.
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Writer, editor, curator, software developer, and teacher. My focus is on the future of imaging and the advancement of social justice and human rights.
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