For years, I thought good photography meant hunting for striking subjects — the dramatic building, the unusual face, the postcard landmark. But the images that stayed with me weren't about things at all. They were about light.

Photography has continually evolved with technology. Film gave way to digital. Darkrooms gave way to Photoshop. Now we’re in the middle of another major shift: artificial intelligence. But this one doesn’t just speed things up, it’s changing what it even means to create a photograph.