Photographers Depict Phones Sucking the Soul From Viewers

What if “soul-sucking” wasn’t just a euphemism?

Like, what if the incorporeal fibre of our being was actually, physically extracted from our bodies every time we did something completely devoid of substance? How would that look?

Probably something like this.

Two photographers, Max Cavallari and Antoine Geiger, have launched separate projects that seek to show what it would look like to be rooted – face-to-screen – to our phones in what can only be described as the best exercise of Photoshop’s smudge function ever.

“To what extent are we willing to give up physical identity for greater affirmation of our technology?” asks Cavallari in the abstract for his work, Loneliness. 

Geiger’s project, titled SUR-FAKE, makes a similar critique of our relationship with gadgets.

““[Technology] is placing the screen as an object of ‘mass subculture’, alienating the relation to our own body, and more generally to the physical world,” he says.

It’s a strange as hell – but not unreasonable – portrayal of life in 2015, that’s for sure.

Photo: Antoine Geiger

 

Photo: Antoine Geiger

 

Photo: Antoine Geiger

 

Photo: Antoine Geiger

 

Photo: Max Cavallari

 

Photo: Max Cavallari

 

Photo: Max Cavallari

 

Photo: Max Cavallari

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