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Photographer Disqualified from AI Image Contest After Winning with Real Photo


The photographers strike back.

Astray’s winning photo on the 1839 website which has since been removed after he was disqualified.The color photography contest is judged by people who work for The New York Times, Getty Images, Phaidon Press, Christie’s, and Maddox Gallery, among others. In an email to PetaPixel, the competition’s organizers said that while it appreciates Astray’s “powerful message”, his entry has been disqualified in consideration for the other artists. We understand that was the point, but we don’t want to prevent other artists from their shot at winning in the AI category.

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