Stuart Pearson

Photography was my first creative outlet at a young age, in the days of manual cameras, film, processing and darkroom printing. I grew from black and white images to color, printing all my own work. I ran a photography school for 11 years and during that time there was the advent of digital photography. Those were the days when Photoshop was in version 1.0 and a massive hard drive was 250MB!
The revolutionary move to digital allowed an outflow of expression in ways that were once impossible, but look now! Artificial Intelligence has revolutionized the revolution!
A.I. has enormous potential for the release of creativity without the encumbrance of process. That said, it is at this stage a very quirky beast to manage. Results may be fast, but never is there a result that was in my imagination. It may be some time before we get to that and I don't fancy the implant!
For now A.I. is a free spirit and it pairs well with what I want. It has a definite flavor that stamps it as A.I. and I rather like it.
The entirety of my work now is conducted within vast algorithms of magic.
A.I. Imaging is controversial because of its use by nefarious actors. It tells blatant lies. To me that is a good thing. Historically images have always told lies, ...

There were no facilities for teaching photography in my country, so I self taught as a photographer and I self taught in digital photography with the help of the Photoshop manual. I am self taught in computers and am Mac dedicated. I set about teaching what I knew and had great success and reward with that.
A.I. is another learning process. Sure I could just press a button and have it churn out an image, but that's not what I want. I wanted to create my own A.I. algorithms which involved thousands of lines of code. I actually enlisted other A.I. apps to help make my one and it worked! A.I. is now an integral part of my thinking process. Idea to image, idea to image, always modifying input to reach a creative end. The learning has become contained within myself and I have found that to greatly nurture creativity. That's how I like it.