In this season, creators were invited to analyse how what we see can help us create connections with people and our true self. With a more significant creative control given by the upgraded Pixel Pro camera with access to the camera’s Pro Controls, the artists had the opportunity to experiment with settings like shutter speed, ISO and F-Stop, and to record imagery in full 50MP RAW or JPEG format across the full zoom range. In addition, in this last season, they also could create with the help of the new Magic Editor, which, among the many features, uses generative AI to reposition and resize subjects, and use presets to make the background pop.
This Season’s creators are: Lawrence Agyei, Furmaan Ahmed, Cruz Valdez, Campbell Addy, Kennedi Carter, June Canedo de Souza, Aidan Cullen, Pegah Farahmand, Myesha Evon Gardner, Chiara Gabellini, Lelanie Foster, Coyote Park, MaryV, Neva Wireko, Amber Grace Johnson, Andy Jackson, Andrew Thomas Huang, Justin French, Anthony Prince Leslie, Myles Loin, Natalia Mantini, Gabriel Moses, Shikeith, Texas Isaiah, GLASSFACE, Tim Kellner, Mayan Toledano, Dana Scruggs, and Adrian Octavius Walker.
Our heartfelt congratulations to Kennedi Carter, Anthony Prince Leslie, Mayan Toledano, and Myesha Evon Gardner who took part of the A.I. Symposium in Milan in the talk “When Creativity Meets Technology: A Conversation with Creator Labs artists & Google Pixel at PhotoVogue Festival” during the days of the PhotoVogue Festival.
We collected some quotes from the participants to better understand what this project has meant for them.
Furmaan Ahmed
Inspired by the celtic lore of the selkie women, this documentation was a collaboration between myself and artist Soojin Chang, shot on the volcanic coast of Cornwall. The project was born from the pain and wonderment of being part of the diaspora in the UK and understanding our identities in lands that would be foreign to our ancestors. When thinking about what makes us unique as part of the creator labs project, it is the constant changing hybridity that myself and so many in my community possess. To be from two lands, of two genders and from two bodies.
We set out to create a new kind of folk image archive, based not on facts but on memories, aided with the accessibility of the Google Pixel. A retelling of the past through new voices. To rewrite British folk stories and mythologies by placing queer, trans, black and brown people at the center of these histories, customs and rites. To help us reconnect with the landscape around us and think about the future of folk.