Removed by Eric Pickersgill
North Carolina photographer Eric Pickersgill has produced a fascinating set of photographs where he shows people in everyday life with imaginary mobile phones.
Designed to illustrate our reliance on mobile technology I am fascinated by the work and fortunate that I have come across the today (14th Oct – I’m a little behind with my blog posts) as I am starting to draft my assignment three notes.
While this is a posed piece of work, in my opinion, is fall straight into the hands of the decisive moment. It is capturing how society looks now or should I say would look if our mobile we removed. Indeed, would we adopt these poses if we didn’t have an iPhone?
The use of black & white imagery allows the view to see the shapes and forms without distraction, but moreover, it is the concept that is mind blowing to me. It shows have mobile have infiltrated our lives (which is what I’, trying to show with my assignment 3) in a way that my assignment does come close to.
I have shown how in relationships there is the closeness but no communication; it shows how in every part of social interaction the mobile is there no matter what we are doing – even driving.
It is a project I can keep looking at again and again has inspired me to think more laterally about concepts.
Bibliography
Tweedy, J. (2015) Photographer photoshops mobile phones OUT of images. Available at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3270660/Communication-problems-Photographer-removes-mobile-phones-images-couples-families-expose-just-addicted-technology-become.html (Accessed: 14 October 2015).