(un)plugged 2

Year:

2022

I am obsessed... obsessed with the ubiquitous nature of these mini computers that we have in our pockets. To call them phones is simply wrong. We literally have a device more powerful than the computers that first assisted with sending people into space. We take them for granted, but we also take the world for granted by using them so frequently. People look at them while walking and really don't know how they get home each night. Breathe... One evening I was on my way home and it was immediately apparent that nobody was looking at anything other than their device. So overwhelmingly isolating it was, I took out my camera and shot the initial images in the 9 minutes walking to the taxi rank. This was the start of my fascination with the device that has almost certainly shaped how we do things in the early 21st Century. how we communicate, ritually photograph and share our meals, date and/or select a mate... Many photographers see them as ugly but if you look at their presence sociologically and culturally I think they are fascinating.