Utopian modern life without smartphones Eric Pickersgill photos

Armed with a camera, Eric Pickersgill (Eric Pickersgill) travels to northern California, creating a haunting black-and-white photos of people who are stuck in their smartphones. He removes the phone from their hands, leaving strangers to look into the void, thereby increasing absurdity of the current depending on the gadgets.

Sitting once in a cafe a small American town, Eric drew attention to the family, whose members were absolutely far from each other, is very close. Father and two daughters are not cut off from their smartphones, and my mother, not knowing what to do, I looked out the window and sad. Head of the family from time to time distracted to announce another "unbelievable" news from the Internet, without receiving proper reaction others, immediately returned to the online world.

I am saddened by using the interaction of technology instead of real interaction. I never thought about it before, and at that moment realized that this trend - the price paid by the Company for a new experience. While I was thinking, my mother pulled out his smartphone.

Family, mother's face, teenage girls pose in which her father was, and ultimately focus on the hands permanently etched into the consciousness. This is one of those moments when something very ordinary shocking, revealing a frightening reality. The same obsession accompanied me in the shops, in the classroom, side of the highway and even in bed with his wife. We are bombarded with back-to-back, nursing in the hands of small, cold, glowing devices.

according to statistics Pew Research Center, 93% of US smartphone users consider their gadgets useful, while 46% do not represent life without them. 47% of respondents aged 18-29 used a smartphone to step back from all around, and 93% prefer the device as a cure for boredom. According to the results KPCB research center, the average user pays smartphone for about three hours each day. On the scale of one year it added up to 46 days.

We subconsciously determine when a person uses a smartphone, according to a characteristic facial expression. When we see these signs, there is no need for the physical presence of the phone to uniquely identify the situation.

Eric project Removed It reflects the frightening reality of modern society. Pickersgill traveled through Northern California, the company met the people involved with their smartphones, and sealed them in the same position, but without a phone in his hand.

When I turned to strangers for help with the project, the concept seemed to them amusing. But after a while they realized the scale of the problem.