Sara Oscar is a photographic artist, writer and academic. Her work explores the impact of visual technologies in shaping conceptions of self and other, often playing upon photographic ways of seeing that shapes what is classified, remembered and forgotten in image collections. Her scholarly research considers the epistemic, cultural and ontological impacts of AI generated technology as part of a broader historical framework of photography.
I had no photos of my mother’s pregnancy and migration, so I found a way for AI to help fill in the gaps
Sara Oscar’s Counterfactual Departures uses generative AI to create an otherwise non-existent family archive—creating photographs that depict her pregnant mother’s migration from Thailand to Australia in 1974.