Photographer removes phones from these photos to show how terribly addicted we’ve become
30 Oct 2015 12:20 PM IST
Photographer removes phones from these photos to show how terribly addicted we’ve become
American photographer Eric Pickersgill removed the smartphones and digital devices from his portraits of everyday life.- “In similar ways that photography transformed the lived experience into the photographable, performable, and reproducible experience…” he said.
- “Despite the obvious benefits that these advances in technology have contributed to society, the social and physical implications are slowly revealing themselves,” says Pickersgill.
- Pickersgill has achieved the surreal effect in his photos by asking strangers and friends to remain in position, removing their cellphones, and then taking the shot.
- Dad looks up every so often to announce some obscure piece of info he found online.
- Mom doesn’t have one or chooses to leave it put away. She stares out the window, sad and alone in the company of her closest family, he added.
- “Not much talking. Father and two daughters have their own phones out.”
- “Family sitting next to me at Illium café in Troy, NY is so disconnected from one another,” Pickersgill writes in his notes from that day.
- The photographer was inspired by a chance encounter in a New York cafe.
- The project “Removed” aims to show our addiction to technology and hyper-connectivity, and Pickersgill knows that he’s also amongst the addicted.
American photographer Eric Pickersgill removed the smartphones and digital devices from his portraits of everyday life.
Photographer removes phones from these photos to show how terribly addicted we’ve become
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