Winner of Sony World Photography Award refuses his prize after revealing portrait was created by AI

A German artist who won the Sony World Photography Award has refused to accept his prize after revealing his black and white portrait of two women was in fact created by AI. Boris Eldagsen tricked competition organisers with his entry, Pseudomnesia: The Electrician - a haunting close-up of two women in a grainy sepia which won the creative open category last week. He stunned organisers by rejecting the award, claiming that'AI is not photography' - as he hopes to create a discussion surrounding the future of art. The World Photography Organisation, who run the Sony awards, told MailOnline that they had been deliberately mis-led by Eldagsen about the extent to which AI would be involved. In a statement on his website, Eldagsen, 52, described this as a'historic moment', adding: 'I applied as a cheeky monkey, to find out if the competitions are prepared for AI images to enter.