Altered Reality

Altered Reality is a photographic series that challenges the viewer’s trust in the authenticity of images. Each composition begins with a documentary style photograph of a real world site, many marked by industry, infrastructure, or development. They are digitally altered using AI tools to erase all visible man-made elements. In their place, the software generates convincingly natural features: trees, fields, rivers, or skies that never existed.
After these transformations, schematic like outlines of the removed structures are reintroduced as faint, ghosted overlays, haunting the landscape. By constructing illusions of untouched nature and then subtly breaking them, Altered Reality confronts the role of AI in shaping environmental perception and questions the cultural impulse to romanticize the “natural” as something pure or original.
Rather than offering utopian visions, the series draws attention to how truth is selectively framed, erased, or reimagined in the age of generative technology. It asks what traces of reality persist even after they have been digitally removed, what that says about our evolving relationship with nature, memory, and the image.