Do you remember when we were young and we didn't have smartphones or tablets? Do you remember 10 years ago, when nobody had Facebook? My mother, if it even costs to think about what we were doing in the absence of these "tools" that they have us connected to the network at all hours. And they have a lot of good, because they allow us to interact with people from all over the world and be more up-to-date with news and developments, but they also have a lot of negative: the more time we spend in front of a screen, less time we spend with our children; the more time they spend in front of a screen, less time spend with us.
This is what the photographer wanted to show Eric Pickersgill, what hooked that we can become mobile and tablet, with an impressive series of photos of families and people on a daily basis, with the gesture of being using the mobile or tablet, but without them really.
"REMOVED" (Deleted)
The project is titled Removed, as it shows what you will see in the photos: people with their screens, without them, because they have been removed. They are gone, but they remain with their gesture.
To carry out the project, he was inspired by a personal experience in a New York café. A family was sitting at a table and everyone was with their mobile phones, except the mother, who either did not have or decided to keep it. The woman turned her eyes towards the window and thus stayed a few moments, looking out, without talking to anyone, alone, while accompanied by their closest relatives.
Accompanied, but alone
And this is what he wanted to capture, that we defend the use of mobile phones and social networks because we are permanently connected and communicated and that instead, we often have to people close to our side that we are ignoring. Did this happen in the pre-mobile era? I do not think so. Surely if in one room we were two people without much to do, we ended up telling us something, talking, smiling, interacting. And if we were with our children, anyway.
Each one of you get your own conclusions.
