Cancer Photography: Part 4—The Creative Collapse (and the Way Out)

As AI cranks out fake concert posters and corporate lawyers squeeze both music and photography, the message to real artists is the same: your work is worth nothing.

But this isn’t just about money. It’s about culture. When rights-grab contracts, streaming pennies, and monopoly promoters strip value out of creativity, the damage doesn’t stop with musicians or photographers. It ripples outward — to fans, to communities, to history itself.