We’re glued to our mobiles. But what would happen if you took those phones away? What would our body language look like? What would it say about our relationships with those we love most?
Artist Eric Pickersgill reveals all that in his new photo series ‘Removed’.
His subjects are left staring at their hands – and it’s confronting to say the least.
Pickersgill was watching a family in a cafe when the concept was born The father and three daughters were sitting on their phones. The mother was staring out the window.
"The image of that family, the mother’s face, the teenage girls’ and their father’s posture and focus on the palm of their own hands has been burned in my mind," Pickersgill wrote in the description of the photo series.
"It was one of those moments where you see something so amazingly common that it startles you into consciousness of what’s actually happening and it is impossible to forget.
"I see this family at the grocery store, in classrooms, on the side of the highway and in my own bed as I fall asleep next to my wife. We rest back to back on our sides coddling our small, cold, illuminated devices every night."
It begs one simple question: what if we related with each other instead?
Take a look at more of the series here:
All photos were republished here with full permission. Find out more about the series here.
