Suzi Dougherty was chuffed when a happy snap she took of her son on her iPhone turned out so well.
She was so happy with the sharp, colour-saturated picture of him posing with mannequins at a Gucci exhibition that she had a copy printed off for her mother and entered it in a local photography competition.
Four judges considered the photo – and they loved it.
Then they rejected it. They were suspicious it had been generated by artificial intelligence.
Dougherty jokes that he’s just upset he didn’t win. “I was flattered,” she says, adding that her 18-year-old son, Caspar,