Code & Karma

• Prize
  Gold in Special Categories/AI-Generated Images
• Photographer
  Sucharith Somayajula

Code & Karma” is all about imagining what happens when the spiritual and the high tech meet. It plays with the idea that our next cultural stories won’t just come from ancient traditions, but maybe from binary code too. By placing humanoids and humans in the mix of traditional, ritualistic settings, the series raises a question: Can technology carry forward or even revive our cultural memory? These photos are staged to show a natural conversation between rural India’s thousands year old heritage and the fast-evolving world of artificial intelligence.