The old belief that the camera steals the soul was never just superstition — it was foresight.
It captured more than light; it held the breath of a moment — and something of the one who lived it.
Once it gathered light. Now it calculates it.
Yet every image still demands an offering: a trace of soul it carries into the darkroom of memory.
In AI this theft returns, refined.
What was once a single loss now happens by the millions:
each new image born from the shadows of others,
fed by a collective memory that belongs to no one.
Perhaps it is no longer theft, but transformation —
a drifting between remembrance and invention, between loss and metamorphosis.
Once the camera took the soul.
Now it multiplies it — until it disappears.
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„All dream through the same night - no continent ever touches another.“ #dreams #weownthenight #night #surrealart #photoart #blackandwhitephotography #color #promptart #dreamscapes #sleep #digtalart #surréalisme
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Sometimes reality needs a little cotton wool.
Paris provides it — steeped in perfume, wrapped in midnight boulevards, drifting dresses, and a shimmer that is more dream than place.
As in Midnight in Paris, the night turns into a script of memory and desire.
Between the Rive Gauche and the clochard, between a trace of Chanel No. 5 and the glow of the streetlamps, the old enchantment stretches out once more.
Baudelaire wrote it, Brassaï saw it — as flâneur and as gaze.
Fashion, literature, amour: everything floats in a soft twilight that blurs the edges of the world for just a moment.
And sometimes, that’s enough.
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