Soul-Sucking Photos Show How Phone Addiction Is Stealing Our Souls
French photographer Antoine Geiger creates photos of people having their faces sucked into their cellphones. The project, titled SUR-FAKE, touches on issues of technology dependance and addiction: “It is placing the screen as an object of ‘mass subculture’, alienating the relation to our own body, and more generally to the physical world.”
“Nothing was staged. I went out and captured reality,” Antoine told Bored Panda.
Antoine Geiger is a 20-year-old photographer who’s lived in England, France and the Netherlands. Over the last two years, he’s had four exhibitions, and been mentioned or published in print ten times.
UPDATE: Geiger’s work is very similar to that of Max Cavallari, another artist concerned with the influence of technology on our daily lives.
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Share on FacebookI think all these "technology is evil" art is as overdone and as blatant an attempt to go viral by abusing a popular concept as drawing Disney princesses in every way imaginable. Did you use to shame people that were using cameras? Reading magazines and newspapers? Looking at maps? Communicating with their loved ones? Is it really such a bad thing that I can do all of these with one device?
Exactly my thoughts! When Im in a museum I look on my phone, because there is an interactive app that gives me interesting background info on the painting and artist. And at a cafe I read the news and an ebook on that same device. That wining about how phones are sucking out the souls of our generation just comes from old people who chopped trees to make paper for books/newspapers/hmguides etc.
Load More Replies...God forbid someone would want to document their time here, share with their friends, or find out extra information of the paintings around them. I hate pretentious brats like this artist.
i hate how they are taking selfies with Mona Lisa instead of just enjoying the artwork...
Ironically, most of the people who saw this artist's work in this article were using their phones.
i think he believes technology is evil and soul sucking because all he knows how to do is use the smudge tool in photoshop and he's mad
Meansville, photographers face is like this too.. But nice post anyway!
I'm seeing a great Doctor Who story here...........................
I did something akin to this with this cartoon of people stuck to their cell phones. cel-phone-...6db620.jpg
I did something akin to this with this cartoon of people stuck to their cell phones.
I did something akin to this with this cartoon of how people are stuck to their cell phones. cel-phone-...830b73.jpg
I would not talk to a woman who was on a phone constantly, I just think it looks closed off and cold.
I do think people should spend less time on their phones, but I don't think it should go as far as cell phones "Stealing Our Souls!" That's a little overdramatic!
i have never take a selfie. ever. Except twice, just a capture my HAIR for my HAIRSTYLIST(this is HOW I WANT IT!!!! )
Ironically, most of the people who saw this artist's work looked at on their phone.
Thank you for this. As simple as some may find this, I still think it is invaluable as a teaching tool regarding our obsession with technology. I have found myself being far too complacent with "veggeing out" in a dark house, with the only light being my cell phone and THAT is not good.
I think this could have been done better. Maybe a few people at dinner, but their faces are in their phones versus conversing. Things like that.
"...Remember to keep pulling the taffy on a hook until it develops a satiny sheen, becoming more opaque..."
Fantastic display of just how addicted we all are to our phones. The need to "stay" connected has truly disconnected us most of the time from the real world. Irony.
my execution better than this https://www.dropbox.com/s/rhyxs9ns655sksk/Screen%20Shot%202015-11-10%20at%2020.07.34.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rhyxs9ns655sksk/Screen%20Shot%202015-11-10%20at%2020.07.34.png?dl=0 My execution better that
http://www.celesteprize.com/artwork/ido:339497/ A similar project made by an italian photographer
I think his photographs represent what is really going on. Very clever
I think all these "technology is evil" art is as overdone and as blatant an attempt to go viral by abusing a popular concept as drawing Disney princesses in every way imaginable. Did you use to shame people that were using cameras? Reading magazines and newspapers? Looking at maps? Communicating with their loved ones? Is it really such a bad thing that I can do all of these with one device?
Exactly my thoughts! When Im in a museum I look on my phone, because there is an interactive app that gives me interesting background info on the painting and artist. And at a cafe I read the news and an ebook on that same device. That wining about how phones are sucking out the souls of our generation just comes from old people who chopped trees to make paper for books/newspapers/hmguides etc.
Load More Replies...God forbid someone would want to document their time here, share with their friends, or find out extra information of the paintings around them. I hate pretentious brats like this artist.
i hate how they are taking selfies with Mona Lisa instead of just enjoying the artwork...
Ironically, most of the people who saw this artist's work in this article were using their phones.
i think he believes technology is evil and soul sucking because all he knows how to do is use the smudge tool in photoshop and he's mad
Meansville, photographers face is like this too.. But nice post anyway!
I'm seeing a great Doctor Who story here...........................
I did something akin to this with this cartoon of people stuck to their cell phones. cel-phone-...6db620.jpg
I did something akin to this with this cartoon of people stuck to their cell phones.
I did something akin to this with this cartoon of how people are stuck to their cell phones. cel-phone-...830b73.jpg
I would not talk to a woman who was on a phone constantly, I just think it looks closed off and cold.
I do think people should spend less time on their phones, but I don't think it should go as far as cell phones "Stealing Our Souls!" That's a little overdramatic!
i have never take a selfie. ever. Except twice, just a capture my HAIR for my HAIRSTYLIST(this is HOW I WANT IT!!!! )
Ironically, most of the people who saw this artist's work looked at on their phone.
Thank you for this. As simple as some may find this, I still think it is invaluable as a teaching tool regarding our obsession with technology. I have found myself being far too complacent with "veggeing out" in a dark house, with the only light being my cell phone and THAT is not good.
I think this could have been done better. Maybe a few people at dinner, but their faces are in their phones versus conversing. Things like that.
"...Remember to keep pulling the taffy on a hook until it develops a satiny sheen, becoming more opaque..."
Fantastic display of just how addicted we all are to our phones. The need to "stay" connected has truly disconnected us most of the time from the real world. Irony.
my execution better than this https://www.dropbox.com/s/rhyxs9ns655sksk/Screen%20Shot%202015-11-10%20at%2020.07.34.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rhyxs9ns655sksk/Screen%20Shot%202015-11-10%20at%2020.07.34.png?dl=0 My execution better that
http://www.celesteprize.com/artwork/ido:339497/ A similar project made by an italian photographer
I think his photographs represent what is really going on. Very clever
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