Listen: What the Future Holds for Photography

Plus, Sotheby’s plans its first auction in Saudia Arabia.

Zanele Muholi, detail of Owakhe X, Sheraton, Brooklyn, New York (2019). Courtesy the artist and Yancey Richardson.

It’s a weird time for photography. Thanks to the advent of camera phones, humans now produce millions of photos per second. And thanks to the rise of A.I., photorealistic images are flooding into our already photo-saturated existence, even sometimes winning prestigious photography awards. Where does this leave the photography market?

Also in this episode, Sotheby’s will stage its first live auction in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, in February. Plus, why the art fair landscape is increasingly in flux.

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