Jim Montague featured in Edge of Humanity Magazine

Photography is at an interesting point in its nearly 200-year history. I believe we are witnessing a rapid blurring of the very definition of photography itself. New tools, most recently AI, are adding to this – challenging our understanding and the very definition of the term.

I speak here only for myself and share my personal philosophy, what I believe is and is not photography and how this philosophy guides my work. So, here goes.

To be clear, in many respects I am a photographic traditionalist. As a foundation, this is Webster’s definition of photography: “The art or process of producing images by the action of radiant energy and especially light on a sensitive surface (such as film or an optical sensor).”

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