Robi Gallardo on AI, Mobile Photography and Creativity
AI, Agency and the Human Imagination: In Conversation with Robi Gallardo Artificial intelligence has become impossible to ignore. Whether quietly enhancing the photographs we make on our smartphones or generating entirely synthetic images from a line of text, AI is redefining the boundaries of photography at remarkable speed. Yet while the technology continues to evolve, the questions it raises are far older than the software itself. What makes an image ours? Where does authorship begin and end? Can a machine ever replicate lived experience, or merely imitate its appearance? These are questions I continue to explore through this ongoing interview series for TheAppWhisperer. Rather than focusing on the technology alone,…
“The Integrity of the Fine Artist Must Be Preserved” — Rita Colantonio on AI and Photography
Over the past few years, much of my writing and photographic research has increasingly centred on questions of memory, grief, spectatorship, and photographic truth. I have become deeply interested in how photographs shape emotional understanding, how images linger in the mind, influence perception, and quietly alter how we remember experiences long after the moment itself has passed. Photography has never simply been about documentation; it is tied to absence, intimacy, trauma and belief. We do not merely look at photographs; we inhabit them emotionally. At the same time, through my work at TheAppWhisperer, I have spent almost two decades observing and documenting the evolution of mobile photography and digital art from…





