BY: MELISSA BOODOO
Genuine human connection is getting harder and harder to find these days as we depend more than ever on our phones, laptops and computers as our main source of communication and entertainment. Why bother taking a streetcar over to your bud’s place when you can just skype them on your laptop? Why even go to your friend’s house when you can just turn on your Xbox and stay in the comfort of your own home. The more we alienate ourselves, the more awkward we get, and how do we combat that awkwardness that was created by our dependence on technology? With more help from technology. Our phones are the best way to avoid making eye contact with people passing by and to give us company when we’re out and about by ourselves.
Photo By: Antoine Geiger
French photographer, Antoine Geiger has created a disquieting photo series of the true nature of what our phones are doing to us as a society. SUR-FAKE is a collection of photos that shows a group of random passersby being sucked into their phones. Their faces are completely blurred and gone as they lose themselves either taking selfies, browsing through their emails or playing senseless games.
Photo By: Antoine Geiger
Photo By: Antoine Geiger
Photo By: Antoine Geiger
Photo By: Antoine Geiger
Photo By: Antoine Geiger
“Placing the screen as an object of ‘mass subculture,’ alienating the relation to our own body, and more generally to the physical world.”
Image source: antoinegeiger.com
