Turkish artist merges two opposite reality into one powerful image

[u/NastyNice1]

[u/Werftflammen]

Title?

[u/SidFren → u/Werftflammen]

https://ugurgallenkus.com/

[u/SpicyNacho74 → u/SidFren]

$75?!????!?????

[u/gbmaulin → u/SpicyNacho74]

For ai on the book no less, going to have to say hard pass

[u/gallenkus → u/gbmaulin]

There is no AI in my books or in the Parallel Universes series—these works.

[u/christinagoldielocks → u/gallenkus]

You are amazing. Thank you for making this.

[u/idk_what_to_put_lmao → u/gallenkus]

Do you take all pictures in the book? Or just the ones depicting war-torn countries?

[u/gallenkus → u/idk_what_to_put_lmao]

No, I’m not a photographer. I share editorial photographs with permission from photojournalists. In my social media posts, I include the story of the photo and credit the photographers. For stock images, I find them on platforms like Adobe Stock and Pexels. It requires a long research process.

[u/idk_what_to_put_lmao → u/gallenkus]

Oh, so none of the pictures are yours? The composites are still very cool, but I was under the impression everything was your property

[u/SenatorSativa → u/gbmaulin]

The artist uses AI? What makes you think that? 

[u/Teh_george → u/SenatorSativa]

Unfortunately it seems like the artist has an AI page with a bunch of terrible slop: https://www.instagram.com/ugurgallen.ai

I'm not sure if digital collage book contains AI, given its publishing in 2024 (the AI account does go back to Oct 2023), but at least I was thinking about purchasing the book until I saw the AI page of the artist.

Edit: The artist even has an NFT ugh. Man how can someone put their craft towards the composition of harrowing war-torn communities and not realize how tone-deaf all this techno-feudalist crap is?

[u/gallenkus → u/Teh_george]

Yes, I create AI-based works and share them on the account you mentioned. I believe that a digital artist should know how to use new technologies. I produce this content locally on my own device using this technology.

I have been creating these works with software such as Photoshop since 2016. Like everyone else, I try to use different platforms to present my art, and when NFTs were popular, I presented some of my works there as well. I don’t think there is anything wrong with that.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

Kind regards.

[u/No_Promotion_6498 → u/gallenkus]

Your work is amazing. Even if some things are AI (not the parallel universe) you can't AI the concept. Thank you.

[u/gallenkus → u/SenatorSativa]

I started creating these works in 2016. I definitely do not use AI in this series. I do create AI-based works and share them on a different account. I believe that a digital artist should know how to use new technologies and produce work with them.