I’ve been having some trouble figuring out how to photograph the scenes I had in mind for my Inequality project. When I learned about the Flux.1 image AI the other day, I decided to give it a whirl. I made several attempts at contrasting Jeff Bezos’ wealth, estimated at $200 billion in 2022, with that of the median Black family in America that year ($45,000). The above is the best one (I added the amount labels in Photoshop, as image-generating AIs are notoriously bad at text. Of course, this doesn’t really begin to show the actual scale of the gap. Below, a number of earlier attempts.
Next, I’ve photographed some bills on m own and will attempt to duplicate them in Photoshop more precisely to scale. We’ll see if that works…