The Idiocracy Algorithm: Art, Attention, and the Vanishing Lens
BLACKLINE DISPATCH No. 009 Vol. X, No. 3 | May 2025 The city doesn’t sleep, it just mutters in static.
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Category: The Briefing
The Last Gasp of the Honest Image
Blackline Dispatch No. 008Byline: Dalton Barron (with a nod to Sterling Graves) The city used to run on film and
The Trial They Won’t Let You See
The Briefing No. 002 The federal courtroom reeks of bourbon-and-burned-coffee justice. Sean “Diddy” Combs sits shackled to his legacy, staring
Framed and Favored: Doug Mills, the Pulitzer, and the Photographer Who Will Never Be There
Vol. X, No. 2 | May 2025 Framed and Favored: Doug Mills, the Pulitzer, and the Photographer Who Will Never
The Shutter Tax: How 2025 Camera Tariffs Are Gutting Photographers
BLACKLINEVol. X, No. 1 | January 2025THE SHUTTER TAXBy Sterling Graves The darkroom’s quiet these days. Not because we’ve stopped
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On Fame, Iconography, and the Diddy Trial 2025
BLACKLINE Vol. IX, No. 52 · May 2025THE FRAME THAT CRACKSOn Fame, Iconography, and the Diddy Trial 2025By Sterling Graves
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The Museum That Breathes in Code: A Dirge for Human Art
BLACKLINEVol. IX, No. 49 | May 2025THE MUSEUM THAT BREATHES IN CODEBy Sterling Graves, The Ghost They’re building a mausoleum
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What the Light Doesn’t Edit – Sony World Photography Awards 2025 Breakdown
BLACKLINEVol. IX, No. 48 | May 2025WHAT THE LIGHT DOESN’T EDITBy Sterling Graves, The Ghost The shutter still fires. But
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Ghost in the Frame: The AI Hoax That Haunts the Future of Photography
BLACKLINEApril 2023 — Extra EditionPHANTOM PICTURE POISONS PRIZE!“AI-Generated Ghost” Stiffs Sony, Sparks Art World War—By Sterling Graves, The Specter Beat—
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Generative Guilt: How Real Photographers Can Still Win in an AI World
DISPATCH NO. 002 The city hums like a darkroom fan—relentless, mechanical. Neon bleeds through the blinds, painting the studio in
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