David Morris and Ken Newlan tell us more about the inspiration behind the latest exhibition to be hosted at The Crypt Gallery:

 

We are very passionate, very human photographers, wondering what the future holds for us in an AI - Artificial Intelligent world?

AI is moving fast and will affect everyone’s life, it will invade the Creative Arts.

Who needs photographer’s artwork, or original images when you can create your own?

We are holding a Three Eyes Exhibition in the Crypt Gallery in the grounds of Norwich Cathedral at the end of July where we will explain the thinking behind our photography and just as importantly engage with visitors on how they see AI working out.

We’re hoping it is the human intelligence behind our image making that will set us apart from our artificial competitors.

We are not Anti-AI in the Creative or Design fields, it is just a case of being honest in how you have created your artwork.

The public need to know what they are buying into.

Neither David Morris nor Ken Newlan use AI when they make their images.

 

David Morris studies what makes us human tick, from Barlife to the Theatre, from the Circus to Religion or simply lost souls in big Norfolk landscapes

"I saw an image on Instagram of a young women from the 1940’s  in the corridor of a train looking wistfully out of the window. It was a beautiful monochrome image. It was AI generated. I thought, Good Grief that’s me out of a job then!"

 

Ken Newlan is a fine artist, using photography to extend sculptural, symbolic features of beauty in fertility and ageing; the association between flowering and frailty; fraillty; differng; objects’ identity juxtaposed in still life.

"AI, as simulated vision or experience is often generalised, de-personalised representation of human experience; distracting at best, as many screen representations have proved to be. Like all computer applications AI is a hodgepodge of someone else’ ideas, not specific to time and place, not open to individual sensory enquiry."