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Sponsored Content. Chicago, Illinois. December, 2025. © Clayton Hauck

Get trendy; get famous; make art; sell; retire. I’m still working on the first step and will realistically be stuck there for the rest of my days. That said, I did jump onto the snapshot trend in my early career, not so much by design but on accident. The early photography wave I caught has gotten me to where I am today, which is further to shore than most can say.

While in search of the next wave, this video popped into my feed and I thought it was an interesting topic and well made video, thus this post.

“Proving everyday life is worthy of art.” … “The girl who took the first selfie” …

Photography has traveled a long way in the last twenty years. Even as a relatively new art form still figuring itself out, the impact on humanity is hard to ignore. As we morph into the AI Era where most visuals are generated by computers, it’s daunting to think about where we’ll be in another twenty years.

-Clayton