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At 105°F, photography gets weird in the best possible way. We talk museums, heat-wave film development, the lure of shooting wide open, why your archive might know you better than you do, and how AI is helping read ancient scrolls that nobody has opened in 2,000 years.

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This week we learn that Chris' favourite map projection is Winkel Tripel and that Ade prefers an actual globe. How did we get to that? Well, we started with WWDC 2026 announcements about features for photographers - so we promise there is definitely photography content in this weeks' show!

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Want a new photo superpower? How about something with a low barrier to entry, zero cost, quick to inspire and create and a whole lot of fun? Enter Dirty Little Zine by Rick Vega.

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Jeremiah Chechik

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This is an episode of The Future of Photography podcast with

Adrian Stock

Jeremiah Chechik

Chris Marquardt

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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.

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This is an episode of The Future of Photography podcast with

Adrian Stock

Jeremiah Chechik

Chris Marquardt

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When you are working on a series of images, how you present them is a crucial element of the process. What order? How published? How set out? Is there a text narrative? And if you want to allow your viewers to dive deeper where their interest is sparked, how is that achieved? Well, Chris has built a novel way to do this, which we explore today!

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This is an episode of The Future of Photography podcast with

Adrian Stock

Jeremiah Chechik

Chris Marquardt

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There are a bunch of new opportunities to distribute photos emerging. Well, maybe they have been there before but new ways of working with images and software are bringing them into view. For a few years now, Adrian has shared work on a paid Squarespace website. But here is a free option on GitHub that can be whatever you want it to be! What other options exist out there for us to publish our work?

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Adrian Stock

Jeremiah Chechik

Chris Marquardt

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August 2, 2026 is when the EU AI Act transparency obligations kick in. The C2PA standard is spreading fast across camera bodies and some software. This week sees the launch of two major product upgrades for photographers: Adobe Firefly AI Assistant and Nik Collection 9. One of these ships with the ability to sign exports, the other does not.

So we have new types and increasing numbers of assistants in our workflows and new attempts to help us authenticate our work. How will it all work? Will it work at all? What difference does it make anyway?

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This is an episode of The Future of Photography podcast with

Adrian Stock

Jeremiah Chechik

Chris Marquardt

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Occasionally it's fun to "react" to some click bait. We wouldn't want to do that all the time of course - we respect you all far too much for that! But this little piece from fstoppers caught our eye and yielded some thoughtful discussion.

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A possible step change this week in how we think of the economics of editing photos. Blackmagic Design launched Davinci Resolve 21 with a big new addition - editing of photos including raw files. And it's free! Or at least free for exports up to 10-12MP.

So what happens when you have some really powerful free tools and then personal software you build through agentic development? What does this do to the economics of photo editing? And this agentic stuff is real. Adrian has developed and uses his own DAM and Jeremiah has an exciting project too.

Picks of the week:

This is an episode of The Future of Photography podcast with

Adrian Stock

Jeremiah Chechik

Chris Marquardt

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