dependence on gadgets #photography

How many hours a day do you spend with a smartphone in the hands of?
We are slaves og gadgets.
To demonstrate our overall fixation on our smartphones, photographer Eric Pickersgill snapped a series of shots that he calls “Removed.” The pics show people as they’d look if their phones were invisible or suddenly vanished — staring into their empty hands while ignoring the world around them.

“I do think you need to be aware of how long you are spending on your device and be deliberate about it,” Pickersgill told The Huffington Post. “If using it in public is your intention and you don’t mind alienating other people, then by all means have at it.”

Pickersgill described to HuffPost a scene he witnessed at a cafe in upstate New York: An entire family enjoying breakfast together, except they weren’t really together — everyone but the mother, Pickersgill said, was on a device. They were occupying the same space but were completely disconnected.

The photos below, from the “Removed” series, aren’t candid; they’re essentially reenactments. Pickersgill spots someone using their phone, asks them to hold the pose, removes the device from their hand and then takes the picture. Half of the subjects are strangers, and half are people he knows personally.


for very meticulous reference to the original
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_561d2bb8e4b050c6c4a2e6c0
for very meticulous reference to the original
http://huffpost.com/us/entry/us_561d2bb8e4b050c6c4a2e6c0