Identity

• Prize
  Silver in Special Categories/AI-Generated Images
• Photographer
  Anke Neugebauer
• Agency / Studio
  Seydelei
• Technical Info
  Ai In Photoshop Using My Own Archival Black-and-white Image, Originally Shot With A Pentacon Six And
• Photo Date
  13.10.2024

Identity is the digital vision of a woman, emerging from experimental analogue photography of the 1990s, created through the interplay of light, chemical processes, and early digital image editing on the Mac, pushing the boundaries of analogue photography. In dialogue with generative AI, the work becomes a visual narrative that interweaves analogue, digital, and algorithmic processes, engaging with questions of cultural imagination in the present.

Anke Neugebauer’s artistic practice explores the intersections of photography, documentary strategies, and digital image processes. Trained at the Lette Verein Berlin and further refined at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), she investigates visual spaces where documentary observation, aesthetic condensation, and media-based transformation intertwine. Her early works chart landscapes at the threshold of the visible. Recent series expand this approach through AI-driven interventions that reinterpret photographic material and shift its layers of reality. The 2023 body of work Symphony aft