#Photographer_removes_our_smartphones

عکاس_تلفنهای_هوشمند_ما_را_حذف_می کند# 

 #to_show_our_strange_and_lonely_new_world

تا_دنیای_عجیب_و_تنهای_جدید_ما_را_نشان_دهد#

By Steve Mollman

August 28, 2019

تهیه و ترجمه عنوان از: پیمان پایدار

Are you reading this on a handheld device? There’s a good chance you are. Now imagine how’d you look if that device suddenly disappeared. Lonely? Slightly crazy? Perhaps next to a person being ignored? As we are sucked in ever more by the screens we carry around, even in the company of friends and family, the hunched pose of the phone-absorbed seems increasingly normal.

US photographer Eric Pickersgill has created “Removed,” a series of photos to remind us of how strange that pose actually is. In each portrait, electronic devices have been “edited out” (removed before the photo was taken, from people who’d been using them) so that people stare at their hands, or the empty space between their hands, often ignoring beautiful surroundings or opportunities for human connection. The results are a bit sad and eerie—and a reminder, perhaps, to put our phones away.

Photos courtesy of Eric Pickersgill.

Clarification: This story has been updated, and the headline has been changed to make clear the phones were removed before each photo, not edited out later.