NOWAIDAYS

Photographer

Aitor del Arco

Category

Special Category - Digital Enhance Photography

Company

Submission Group

Professional

Year

2026

Country / Region:

Spain

NOWAIDAYS is a visual diagnosis of our era, where AI and new technologies has transitioned from a tool to an invisible infrastructure. Through a series of metaphors, this work unmasks the opaque systems reshaping power and identity—from biological intervention to corporate dominance. Acting as a silicon mirror, these images interrogate the drive to automate existence and ask what remains of the human spirit in a data-driven world. Created through photography and digital artistry without generative AI, the series reclaims the human gaze to critique the very algorithms that seek to replace it.