As someone who likes to make photographs I am always interested in how people around me are using cameras. Recently I have been observing that in a way we are a

As someone who likes to make photographs I am always interested in how people around me are using cameras. Recently I have been observing that in a way we are already living in an augmented synthetic world. What I mean is, the majority of people going, for example, to my cities harbor side park, do not go and look at the scenery with just their own eyes, or just spend time etc with those they came with, they go with cameras and take photos of themselves, they look at the photos they took of each other together. They see a synthetic version of themselves augmented by computational photography code of their phones, or the beautifying filters of their apps, reflected back at themselves, and their experience of their life, their memory of their visit of that place becomes one of augmented reality. Some people could argue that there is some damage to people by expecting to see a beautified version of your own face, or to always feeling a need to produce images to send to Social media networks, other could argue that this is just part of changing societal norms and that those augmented experiences are still authentic. I feel like the line between fake/real authentic/unauthentic is going to move and warp in ways I can't even envision. Maybe just thinking in terms of fraud is a bit easier.