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An old colleague and friend, the documentary filmmaker, Gerard van Niekerk, suggested I check out the GROK app. I downloaded and tried out a few things, but was underwhelmed. Gerard suggested that I ask GROK who I was/about me. This came up. It was a bit disturbing. One fact that GROK got wrong is that…
I set out a few weeks ago to give photography another try. I had sold the last of my film equipment, my beloved Nikon F5 almost two decades ago, and bought an entry-level digital camera. My work as a writer, an academic and in policy-making had made it difficult to fully embrace photography to the…