Zombie Kids: I Photographed Children Hypnotized By TV
My series “Idiot Box” hopes to explore the darker side of our love for technology. For this project I photographed children watching television. My portraits show the vacant stares of children engrossed in TV.
The kids were 3 to 4-year-old that lived in my neighborhood of Brooklyn. I hope that images start a dialogue about the role of technology in children’s lives.
I know as a mother I have a certain level of techno-paranoia. How much screen time is beneficial to their learning and imagination.
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Share on FacebookI used to have this same expressions on my face while I was stuck on my chair at school.. Maybe this is just the "stuckonachairwhiledoingnothing face" and it has nothing to do with tv, though I can't know for sure, I don't have one.
I have the same fear that technology will completely run over us at some point, and we've already let the tech rule the major part of our lives. I look at the young kids these days - they don't play games or socialize (god-forbid at the street or each houses) with each other, they just exchange the apps on their iPhones, they non-imaginative, very violent at school and in the public, have almost no manners, and the worst thing is - we made them that way. Sad thing to see, this photosession, and so painfully true.
I'm 9, people expect me to be running in the fields or watching TV with all the other kids but I'm not! I'm never hypmotised by TV, it gets boring. Computers I'm glued to my laptop writing books all day. You're wrong and right. I agree with you yet I don't. I'm speaking on behalf of the children of today. I know eight month old babies have their own Ipads but that's only the rich kids. I'm known as the 'Nicest mannered kid on the street' when I was 7. Now that I'm 9 I'm known as the 'Nicest mannered kid in the state'. I excersise on my bike everyday, making friends with my neighbours. Mae Mahariel, you are Wrong!
Load More Replies...This is so sad! I am willing to bet NONE of those kids gave their consent to be part of an agenda-based article with the intent of fearing people with the embarrassing, manipulative photos of themselves Our culture exploits children to promote their own agendas all the time. This one is just plain unbelievable. I've seen pics of myself like this and it isn't based on what I was doing or watching. It was because I wasn't ready for a photo. We are on the cusp of change and children's rights are next on the human rights agenda. The exploitation of these kids through these photos are more damaging than any amount of TV or technology.
Thats stupid. He just waited for them to make a stupid face and caught the perfect second.
Heavy, but hey, I made it past childhood, so I'm NOT going to stop watching now!
I've seen many children reciting lines from adverts, and saying they need things they have no clue of how to use.
My son watches TV, and has his own tablet with games on. I've seen this "vacant" face many a time whilst looking at either. At three years old, he's also on the go from sun up to sun down. Roaring around, outside as much as possible, swimming four times a week and constantly bubbling over with energy. Then he has his tea, has half hour either with TV or tablet, his choice, then gets ready for bed, reads story, sings goodnight songs, and done. Gadgets in moderation are a good thing, as is "quiet time" for a kid to wind down after burning energy all day. If the "kids of today" are rude vegetables, it's the adult generation that need to evaluate how they teach their child. TV isn't to blame, lazy parenting is.
My kids watch TV. Sometimes a lot. And at some other times, they barely remember it exists. I can get them away from it, if I just give a word and suggest we do something together instead. The real TV zombies are the ones who's parents don't care if they are exactly that. Any caring parent who wants their child NOT to be a slave to TV and technology, can achieve just that, by being attentive to their child and living life with them, instead of just living under the same roof with a small person and providing for them.
neXT ON THIS KIDS TAKING PICTURES OF PEOPLE HAVING SEX BC THIS IS STUPID AF
I used to have this same expressions on my face while I was stuck on my chair at school.. Maybe this is just the "stuckonachairwhiledoingnothing face" and it has nothing to do with tv, though I can't know for sure, I don't have one.
I have the same fear that technology will completely run over us at some point, and we've already let the tech rule the major part of our lives. I look at the young kids these days - they don't play games or socialize (god-forbid at the street or each houses) with each other, they just exchange the apps on their iPhones, they non-imaginative, very violent at school and in the public, have almost no manners, and the worst thing is - we made them that way. Sad thing to see, this photosession, and so painfully true.
I'm 9, people expect me to be running in the fields or watching TV with all the other kids but I'm not! I'm never hypmotised by TV, it gets boring. Computers I'm glued to my laptop writing books all day. You're wrong and right. I agree with you yet I don't. I'm speaking on behalf of the children of today. I know eight month old babies have their own Ipads but that's only the rich kids. I'm known as the 'Nicest mannered kid on the street' when I was 7. Now that I'm 9 I'm known as the 'Nicest mannered kid in the state'. I excersise on my bike everyday, making friends with my neighbours. Mae Mahariel, you are Wrong!
Load More Replies...This is so sad! I am willing to bet NONE of those kids gave their consent to be part of an agenda-based article with the intent of fearing people with the embarrassing, manipulative photos of themselves Our culture exploits children to promote their own agendas all the time. This one is just plain unbelievable. I've seen pics of myself like this and it isn't based on what I was doing or watching. It was because I wasn't ready for a photo. We are on the cusp of change and children's rights are next on the human rights agenda. The exploitation of these kids through these photos are more damaging than any amount of TV or technology.
Thats stupid. He just waited for them to make a stupid face and caught the perfect second.
Heavy, but hey, I made it past childhood, so I'm NOT going to stop watching now!
I've seen many children reciting lines from adverts, and saying they need things they have no clue of how to use.
My son watches TV, and has his own tablet with games on. I've seen this "vacant" face many a time whilst looking at either. At three years old, he's also on the go from sun up to sun down. Roaring around, outside as much as possible, swimming four times a week and constantly bubbling over with energy. Then he has his tea, has half hour either with TV or tablet, his choice, then gets ready for bed, reads story, sings goodnight songs, and done. Gadgets in moderation are a good thing, as is "quiet time" for a kid to wind down after burning energy all day. If the "kids of today" are rude vegetables, it's the adult generation that need to evaluate how they teach their child. TV isn't to blame, lazy parenting is.
My kids watch TV. Sometimes a lot. And at some other times, they barely remember it exists. I can get them away from it, if I just give a word and suggest we do something together instead. The real TV zombies are the ones who's parents don't care if they are exactly that. Any caring parent who wants their child NOT to be a slave to TV and technology, can achieve just that, by being attentive to their child and living life with them, instead of just living under the same roof with a small person and providing for them.
neXT ON THIS KIDS TAKING PICTURES OF PEOPLE HAVING SEX BC THIS IS STUPID AF
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