15/06/2026
I will never use AI in my workflow
here’s the TLDR: I don’t care about saving time as much as I care about living and running this business by my values and AI is the antithesis of my values.
The truth is I am resisting AI. In my business and in my life. I built a business on authenticity. It is about slow, considered connection to the work I make. It’s about making art out of the love and connection between people. Art requires attention, time, nurturing, presence. Both in the session and post-production. People pay me for my brain, my eyes, my ideas. Those things can’t be replaced with an algorithm. There are images that the algorithm wouldn’t know can be something special. But I do.
Truthfully, as AI becomes a pervasive part of our lives I worry about the environmental impact, about the way we are being coached to stop thinking, stop creating; the way art is slowly being seen as commodity rather than an experience (both making and receiving art is experiential), the way art and ideas are being stolen by a machine to churn and spit back out in a more plastic, less human thing. Creating is a human necessity. Every single person is a creative being and there is an element of this new world that strives to rob us of our essential creativity.
I want everything I create - photos, painting, even my instagram captions and marketing copy to be me; to be real; to be human. To be a genuine way I am connecting with you. And for me this means there is no place in my business or life for AI.
Even if I didn’t feel this way about creation I will always feel that the environmental impacts are more important than convenience. With data centres causing major electricity and water resource strains globally I don’t want to be apart of the problem.
By the way. These lovely photos of me and my husband taking instant photos were taken by and looking at them is the antidote I always need.
