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Ganbrood
artist.
Ganbrood (Bas Uterwijk) has a background in special effects, 3D animation, video games, and photography. Mostly self-taught, he has always been involved in forms of visual storytelling that imitate and distort reality. Since 2019, he has worked with deep learning software that interprets and synthesizes photographs. In July, he published a Substack post about The Second Gaze , the original portrait of Sharbat Gula, and the question that the 1984 photograph raises in 2025.
From How AI Alters Art History, November 2025
