Soul-Sucking Photos Show How Phone Addiction Is Stealing Our Souls
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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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The smudge tool got a good workout.
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.
Heidi, being old is a mind set/the way you act, it's not about the year you were born in. What you see as "technology dependence" is actually "old media replacement". The fact that you can't see that we now use an app on our phones instead of a printed brochure doesn't mean we don't ever look up from our screen to smell the roses.
Coming from old people? Did you miss the part about this photographer being 20 years old? As an "old" saying, "stop and smell the roses." In other words, look around you and appreciate what's right in front of you! Technology dependence is an addiction, period!
I think it's more that you rarely see people, mainly the younger generations without some sort of electronic device. Like when you see people in line or a waiting room, the majority of them are on their phone, tablet, etc. Yes, the phone can do so much but when it comes to interacting with those around you face to face, technology can get in the way.
You're missing the point. The devices as such are wonderful tools, but the constant *use* of them, and today's society's needs to always be connected, in a way de-humanizes us. We are no longer interacting with our fellow humans, we are immersed in a virtual world where attention seeking has been renamed "sharing" and we fail to see the beauty of what's around us. When did you last take a walk without your phone? Listening to the sounds, being mindful of the environment around you, be it in a forest or a busy town square? How often do you smile at strangers you meet on the street compared to at memes you read on Facebook?
Herp derp technology is making us antisocial http://i.imgur.com/WkHHpZ1.jpg?fb
100% . All agree!
No its isn't... but it becomes when you're overusing it...
The using of the device to read news, or look at a map is not the issue. It is that people are so addicted to their phones that they don't look up and see life in front of them. You used to take a picture and then continue on with your adventure, now you have to check the picture, retake the picture and then share it to every social media account you have...then wait for responses. Meanwhile, the people you are with are forgotten. I find it very sad to go out to eat and see a table full of people all on their devices and no one is talking to each other. There are people that I no longer socialize with because their idea of socializing is me watching them on their phones. Technology isn't evil, it just needs to not be a replacement for human experiences and interactions and that is sadly what it is becoming.
How phone addiction is stealing THEIR souls, not mine...
The smudge tool got a good workout.
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.
Heidi, being old is a mind set/the way you act, it's not about the year you were born in. What you see as "technology dependence" is actually "old media replacement". The fact that you can't see that we now use an app on our phones instead of a printed brochure doesn't mean we don't ever look up from our screen to smell the roses.
Coming from old people? Did you miss the part about this photographer being 20 years old? As an "old" saying, "stop and smell the roses." In other words, look around you and appreciate what's right in front of you! Technology dependence is an addiction, period!
I think it's more that you rarely see people, mainly the younger generations without some sort of electronic device. Like when you see people in line or a waiting room, the majority of them are on their phone, tablet, etc. Yes, the phone can do so much but when it comes to interacting with those around you face to face, technology can get in the way.
You're missing the point. The devices as such are wonderful tools, but the constant *use* of them, and today's society's needs to always be connected, in a way de-humanizes us. We are no longer interacting with our fellow humans, we are immersed in a virtual world where attention seeking has been renamed "sharing" and we fail to see the beauty of what's around us. When did you last take a walk without your phone? Listening to the sounds, being mindful of the environment around you, be it in a forest or a busy town square? How often do you smile at strangers you meet on the street compared to at memes you read on Facebook?
Herp derp technology is making us antisocial http://i.imgur.com/WkHHpZ1.jpg?fb
100% . All agree!
No its isn't... but it becomes when you're overusing it...
The using of the device to read news, or look at a map is not the issue. It is that people are so addicted to their phones that they don't look up and see life in front of them. You used to take a picture and then continue on with your adventure, now you have to check the picture, retake the picture and then share it to every social media account you have...then wait for responses. Meanwhile, the people you are with are forgotten. I find it very sad to go out to eat and see a table full of people all on their devices and no one is talking to each other. There are people that I no longer socialize with because their idea of socializing is me watching them on their phones. Technology isn't evil, it just needs to not be a replacement for human experiences and interactions and that is sadly what it is becoming.
How phone addiction is stealing THEIR souls, not mine...