WANDERING AROUND TOKYO WITH AI

I bought my first professional camera in the summer of 2017 and started taking photos straight away. My first trip with a camera was to Israel and then to Palestine. I found the courage to delve deeper into photography professionally after my photos from this trip were published in a Spanish magazine. My first encounter with artificial intelligence was in 2023, changing my life once more as it helped my perspective on photography, production and art to evolve. AI adds so much to conventional photography. Mainly because it visualises something that doesn’t necessarily exist. This revelation gave birth to my first artificial intelligence project, “Muscular Theology”*. The project came about after I started going to the gym, where, by law, I was not allowed to take photos of other gym-goers. It brings together my interests in movement, fashion photography, the aesthetics of the male form, and AI.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

I promised myself I would use this emerging technology as I pleased, without any restrictions, to do the things I couldn’t do in fashion and art photography, and to bring to life all the ideas in my mind. What I accomplished using AI in six months – to blend human subjects with particular locations where they hadn’t physically existed – would have taken six years to do using conventional methods.

TOKYO

Now, I am wandering around Tokyo with artificial intelligence, hoping to realise what I have in my mind. I ask myself: “What can I capture in only two days, rushing to see as many places as possible in the city? What will I see? What will I miss?” On this trip, facilitated by Midjourney software, I am alone downtown on a foggy weekend. With an analog camera and a few rolls of black-and-white film, I walk around iconic locations, such as the street market and Harajuku, an area known for its vibrant street art and fashion, to photograph men, which is the essence of my “Muscular Theology” project. I listen to Japanese disco as I create this fantasy universe. This is the outcome. A dream that came true. Enjoy the trip!