These photos are beautiful. But none of them strike me as "photography" in the traditional sense of "objective capture of the light at a scene" but rather all look like hyperrealistic digital art. If it was labeled as Dalle3 output I'd believe it.
That's not at all a knock on the photographer. There's a ton of creativity and skill that goes into producing these, particularly at the high res in the gallery display.
But it's interesting that photography and digital art are converging to a similar point. We're not too far from a high res raw image + DalleX being able to produce any imagery this artist + iPhoneX could create.
Aiming for objective capture of light is a kind of photography. Even the best camera and most careful selection of lens and settings isn't objective, so it's only an ideal for those people, and an impossible one to reach.
Some people certainly go for the still life type of photography. It is emphatically not the only or even a significant part of photography as an art. All the best photography has something of the photographer in it. Even the still life stuff is composed in and out of the camera.
That's not at all a knock on the photographer. There's a ton of creativity and skill that goes into producing these, particularly at the high res in the gallery display.
But it's interesting that photography and digital art are converging to a similar point. We're not too far from a high res raw image + DalleX being able to produce any imagery this artist + iPhoneX could create.
Here's my example of a traditional photograph: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/US...