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Improvements in photographic equipment, especially smartphone applications, have democratized photography, image processing, and the presentation of artwork. In the past, software was a special developing technology for digital images, differentiated from "apps" that could easily generate images on a smartphone. Today, however, the functionality of these apps has been reversed and incorporated into image editing software. In this work, the AI-based generation technology that would normally be used to beautifully combine separate images is directed to specify only the "person" in a single digital image, cut it out, and adapt it to the background. This is post-portraiture in the "smartphone age".

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Jun Iizuka

The situation surrounding "photography" is constantly changing with the emergence of synthetic media and the backflow of application functions to software. I am creating and researching works related to the fundamental "gaze" with which people try to capture "images (bild)" in such circumstances.

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Review by Kimi Himeno, Director of Akaaka Art Publishing

The reciprocal abrasion of body and landscape using an app hints a floating existence in these portraits. An object and a photograph that reflects on how the world and the individual relate to each other; an implication with depth.

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