Price range: $10.00 through $15.00
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Date: April 25, 2026
Time: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Reservation Deadline: April 23 @ 2 pm
Location: Glen Arbor Arts Center Main Gallery
Reservations are required. Seating is limited. Admission is $10 GAAC members, $15 nonmembers.
At a time when the world is drowning in photographic images, Grand Rapids photographer Rodney Martin asks: Is photography dead? Martin will present a slide lecture that digs into that question.
As photography moved out of the darkroom and into the computer, the ability to “doctor” an image or to create one using artificial intelligence has caused some to conclude that photography is dead. Martin will explore the impact of digital photography and the implications of generative artificial intelligence on our understanding of photographs. This conversational discussion will enable participants to be savvier consumers of photography in the digital age.
Martin is a retired attorney and an amateur photographer based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He principally concentrates on landscape and nature photography, with a special interest in the Leelanau Peninsula. Martin’s work has been exhibited at the Glen Arbor Arts Center and published by Lenswork Publishing. Rodney enjoys studying the history of photography and the implications of digital photography and artificial intelligence on fine art photography.
Image: Synthetic image, not a photograph, generated by Google’s Nano Banana Pro in response to a text prompt by Rodney Martin, November 2025.