Street Photography is CENTRAL in the history of Photography. And AI is sucking away Photography.

You know, I am done with a certain trend. And I need to express it here.

Fujifilm let us know that: Prepare yourself, the cameras will cost more, and AI is to blame for this. Yes, right. Fujifilm expects to spend over $50 million more, on memory and components alone, for its Imaging division. The reason is paradoxical: artificial intelligence. Massive AI-focused data centers are helping drive up demand and prices for the memory components also used in consumer electronics. And Fujifilm has already indicated that it may adjust prices as a result.

Fujifilm says that, but I say: do as I do: stop buying new cameras and forget about AI, too. That’s another way to put up some resistance.

Technology from 15 years ago is still perfectly capable of taking photographs. Many other photographers and I are proof of this. The important thing is not to be mindless consumers. Let us reject crass capitalism, which, among other things, has brought so much corruption, misery, and death to the world. Let's stop letting companies screw us over. And stop listening to them. I know that anyone working for a company is heavily manipulated. That’s why you believe socialism is the ultimate evil. And the result? We’ve got this shitty Right in power.

With your heads full of bullshit, you spout pseudo-environmental nonsense, yet you remain trapped in the capitalist yoke of the neoliberalism imposed by an elite of assholes; you pollute simply with your ideas, ideas that aren't even yours, but things they’ve sold to you.

Think for yourselves. Rebel against this minority of trillionaires. The time has come to take back our world and strip them of everything.

You might find it ridiculous that I link this stance to my decision to buy only used cameras, but the fact remains that I am no longer lining these companies' pockets. And that is called resistance—something far beyond what the masses certainly do not do. Sooner or later, I’m going to buy a Fujifilm X-Pro, and I’ll do it just to spite the brand that just blamed AI for the price hikes. E sarà tanto bello.

Currently I have 2 old DSLR cameras and with them I work on assignment and making editorial assignments, cover and publications in international magazines. I don’t really need a new camera. I expressed the desire to have a Fuji XPro only because with that I feel to have a closer experience to a rangefinder in digital, and because I can efford a used Fuji at the moment, not a Leica. That’s it. But it could be also a Nikon ZF. Of course, for me , it would be funny to back to have a Fujifilm camera, but in the way that I am saying, in my own way, buying to a guy or store specialized in second hand cameras. Also that is a resistance act.

Let’s do away with the madness of capitalism. If we stop feeding them, they’ll be forced to turn back. Or else, it will still be fun to watch them pivot their brand into becoming a smartphone manufacturer. n any case, I’m not worried: there are plenty of cameras on the second-hand market. And besides, I have a mechanical one that doesn’t even need batteries.

Another speech but is more related than you think: Street Photography is CENTRAL in the history of photography, guys. Let’s keep always in mind that. Street Photography and photographers documenting with their cameras on the street forged photography as we know it. Take in mind that because everytime a photographer with a snob attitude arguing that street photography is bad or it whould be illegal, we can say it clear that we are backed by the very history of photography.

I don't expect many people to understand the writing of this article. I couldn't care less. Better: I could’t give a fuck. Exactly as I make my choices. Exactly as I photograph. I am making my own thing.