# 388 Purity Test

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Podcast: [The Future of Photography](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-future-of-photography-525413)
Published: 2026-06-03T05:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://thefutureofphotography.com/thefutureofphotography/show/tfop388
Audio file: https://feedpress.me/link/18355/17353050/tfop388.mp3
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Duration seconds: 2923

## Resource

Watch this on video | Join us on Discord for more TFOP chat! What is a pure photograph? Yes, we have asked this question before and maybe it's a matter of language as much as anything else. But we now have the ability to generate images so photo-realistic that maybe the only distinction left is the linguistic one. Picks of the week: DANGER: Hermes Agent Paul Nicklen This is an episode of The Future of Photography podcast with Adrian Stock https://adrianstock.com/ (Home) Jeremiah Chechik https://linktr.ee/tinroof_studios (Card) Chris Marquardt @chrismarquardt@chaos.social (Mastodon) @chrismarquardt (Twitter) https://chrismarquardt.com/ (Home) All episodes at https://thefutureofphotography.com, All videos at https://tfttf.com/tfopvideo Find us at Discord: https://tfttf.com/jointfop, Web: https://thefutureofphotography.com, Twitter: https://twitter.com/tfopnow, Instagram: https://instagram.com/tfopnow

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