A government that always looks well rested
Finland’s national news agency may close its news and picture services after years of financial difficulties. Who will take over Lehtikuva’s work — and what could its loss mean for independent news photography and the photographic record we leave behind?
A photograph should not become a guessing game
As AI-assisted tools become part of ordinary image editing, the question is not whether photojournalism uses AI, but whether anyone can still say exactly what changed in the photograph. I spoke with Aikakausmedia about editing, provenance and trust in journalistic photography.
The greatest deception is the idea that photographs do not deceive
I interviewed visual-information scholar Yanai Toister for Tampere University about cameras that sense and decide without producing pictures for human eyes. Our conversation moved from robot vacuums and border systems to AI, photographic truth and the question that matters more than whether an image is ‘real’: what does it do, who built it and for whom?