Our photographic future: An interview with Joanna Zylinska

This interview with Joanna Zylinska was conducted by Alex Fletcher on 8 July 2025. It focuses on Zylinska’s recent study The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future Between the Eye and AI (2023), which investigates the future of photography and human perception in the age of AI. The interview explores the critical affordances of key concepts developed in the book – including ‘a philosophy of after-photography’, ‘the perception machine’ and ‘planetary micro-vision’ – as well as Zylinska’s own media practice.