Salon #74 — Photography and Photobooks in the Age of AI, a panel discussion with Fred Ritchin, Brian Palmer and Alexey Yurenev at Magnum Foundation

Join us for “Photography and Photobooks in the Age of AI,” a 10×10 Salon panel discussion featuring Fred Ritchin, Brian Palmer and Alexey Yurenev. With artificial intelligence fundamentally transforming photography and image-making, this panel will look at its impact within photography in general and more specifically within the field of photobooks from the perspectives of an educator/critic, visual journalist and artist/visual researcher.

Fred Ritchin is a writer, educator, photography critic and dean emeritus of the International Center of Photography (ICP) School. His forthcoming book The Synthetic Eye (Thames & Hudson, 2024) is a revelatory glimpse into the future of photography, one where the very nature of how images are created is fundamentally transformed by artificial intelligence.

Brian Palmer is a visual journalist and educator based in Richmond, VA. Palmer is a former CNN correspondent, US News and World Report photographer, and US News Beijing Bureau Chief. He is a co-founder of the Writing with Light campaign.

Alexey Yurenev is a photographer and visual researcher interested in how technology shapes the production of knowledge and collective memory. His recent book Seeing Against Seeing, generated with the aid of AI, arose from a collaboration with the designer Teun van der Heijden and the Anti-Krieg Museum in Berlin.