Is Documentary Photography at a Crossroads?

Is Documentary Photography at a Crossroads?

Fred Ritchin speaks about the risks and possibilities of AI in a moment defined by conflict, misinformation, and threats to democracy.

via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/is-documentary-photography-at-a-crossroads/

If you have had a visual currency that has been both believable and useful in making the lives of millions of people better, in helping to bring wars to an end earlier, in promoting civil rights, and in provoking global interventions when there’s disease or famine or earthquakes or other serious issues, rather than saying just that it’s been diminished in terms of its credibility, which it has been, I think the appropriate question is: What can be done to restore trust in it as a witness?

https://aperture.org/editorial/is-documentary-photography-at-a-crossroads/