Each Selection Pass grants the owner the right to select an artwork from Light Years by Dmitri Cherniak. The lower the Selection Pass number you own, the earlier you are granted access to choose your preferred artwork. This selection process starts on 5th Dec 2022 at https://lightyears.fellowship.xyz/

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Light Years is a project from generative artist Dmitri Cherniak in partnership with The Estate of László Moholy-Nagy. It is an homage to the photogram as a medium, but with a digitally native twist. Each of the 100 unique editions was created by a code-based generative system, then hand-prepared and printed to a film negative. A high definition scan of the negative was used to develop the image as a silver gelatin print, which can be claimed by the current NFT owner, provided that the print has never been claimed before.

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Light Years #043

Light Years by Dmitri Cherniak

AS10k+ represents the catalogue raisonné of August Sander, one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. By engaging in this collection of contact sheets, you become a steward of Sander’s groundbreaking photographic legacy. This collection also represents a point of entry into the August Sander Research Database, which will become a resource for continued scholarship and appreciation of August Sander’s life and work.

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AS10k+ #4946 (ASA.4.503)

August Sander 10K collection

For more than two decades, the Magnum photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti captured the lives and imaginations of two cousins in rural Argentina. Sanguinetti’s images portray a childhood that is both familiar and exceptional. This collection is an edit derived from two bodies of work — The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams was published with Nazareli Press and exhibited at Yossi Milo Gallery in 2010. The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer was published a decade later with MACK.

Sanguinetti’s work reads like a poem. The images, like standalone allegories, gesture toward the fantasies, hopes, and apprehensions of the two young girls as they grow from adolescence into adulthood. We experience different rites passage: they try-on different personas and perform for their idea of girlhood; adolescence evolves into womanhood and the imaginings of the young settle into the identities of young women.

Belinda and Lucas

Alessandra Sanguinetti

I feel as deep a connection to language as I do to images, though they’ve always lived in separate compartments of my brain. Writing sentences that convert to pictures feels oddly like a dream come true. I have no recollection of having had that dream but the process feels like it was born from an unconscious wish. It interests me that some people are frightened by AI picture making technologies and think it will be the end of art and create a generation of lazy artists. New technologies frighten people. We know that Plato reported Socrates' condemnation of the rise of writing. In this narrative Socrates insists that writing 'will introduce forgetfulness into the soul of those who learn it'.  For me the fear and resistance to AI image generators makes the text to image process more appealing.

Laurie Simmons: In and Around the House II

In partnership with the By Accident Archive, Fellowship is pleased to present The Negatives Collection, a body of work deriving from the archives of Marcel De Baer, a collision investigator that documented accident scenes in Belgium during the 1960s - 70s. While his compositional mastership was practical in nature, we find now, 50 years later, that his work translates uniquely as alluring aesthetic and cultural objects.

By Accident - The Negatives #64

By Accident - The Negatives

The early settlers dubbed California The Golden State, and The Land of Milk and Honey. Today there are the obvious ironies – sprawl, spaghetti junctions and skid row—but the place is not so easily distilled or visualized, either as a cliched paradise or as its demise. There’s a strange kind of harmony when it’s all seen together—the sublime, the psychedelic, the self-destructive. Like all places, it’s unpredictable and contradictory, but to greater extremes. Cultures and histories coexist, the beautiful sits next to the ugly, the redemptive next to the despairing, and all under a strange and singular light, as transcendent as it is harsh.

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The Book of Veles explores disinformation and credibility in computer generated images.
Originally published in spring 2021 as a photobook about the Macedonian town Veles, where local youth ran hundreds of websites that pretended to be American news portals, earning quick cash and helping Trump get elected. This story also weaves in a sneaky pagan bear-god called Veles and the 1919 discovery of a forged ‘ancient’ manuscript. After the project circulated for months, a mysterious social media persona named Chloe Miskin revealed that the project itself was a forgery: all the subjects are 3D renderings and the text was written by the AI machine learning system GPT-2.
This NFT collection features all the project’s intriguing strands: The “journalistic” images, the “historical” documents, the AI text – as well as a unique model gallery where the 3D avatars and objects can be traced back to the original images.

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Crowded Fields

Bourdin’s practice was one that made up its own rules while exploring the arenas of Surrealism, theatricality, absurdism, and sublimity. To the extent that a photographer’s job is to show viewers interpretations of the world, Bourdin’s pictures crafted worlds in which there was no such thing as ordinary, and that all visions were cloaked in alluring and provocative sexuality. The genius that is stamped upon the legacy of Guy Bourdin is found in his inventiveness, enthusiasm, and fearlessness, qualities that define great art, great fashion, and great erotisicism in equal measures.

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Guy Bourdin

The images in this collection gravitates around the relationship between the physical space where things happen; the representational space of photography where those things are depicted and the mental space of the viewer. While anchored in the factual world, these photographs explore the evanescent constitution of reality and its interchanges with the notion of the world as an image.

Mauricio Alejo

The legacy of Hungarian artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy is among the most cherished in the lineage of photographic art, and he can be defined as a visionary whose radical experiments with photography entirely re-imagined the possibilities for the medium. Working in the early 20th century when photography was not considered a form of high art, Moholy-Nagy actively sought to break down boundaries and find new languages of photographic discourse. In doing so, he left behind an oeuvre of visual ideas that have provided artistic license to a century’s worth of photographers to experiment boldly beyond the conventional definitions of what photography is expected to be.

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