The Synthetic Photograph

Consider how artists, professionals in post-production and the wider online community are using compositing tools to create hybrid photorealist images.

When it becomes possible to create “photographs” using virtual cameras and 3D software that are entirely synthetic, how might we continue to speak of ‘photography’ as a sealed cultural form?

Featuring Richard Kolker, a photographer who has never taken a photogaph and Rainer Usselmann, who has been working for over 25 years at the interface of theory, technology and commercial practice in photography and digital media production.