“We are emotional beings and need human to human contact to feel good.”
This project is the work of Babycakes Romero, a London-based photographer.
He tells BuzzFeed News: "It was something I kept seeing over and over again as well as experiencing first hand."
"I saw that smartphones were becoming a barrier to communication in person. I saw how people used it as a social prop, to hide their awkwardness, to fill the silence but as I continued to observe and document this modern phenomena I felt that the devices were actually causing the awkwardness and the silence."
"They basically allow people to withdraw rather than engage."
"All social etiquette regarding the use of phones in company seems to have disappeared."
"The device takes precendence over the person that is present and that felt wrong."
"It is a form of rejection and lowers the self-worth of the person superceded for a device. I feel it also highlights a growing sense of self-absorbtion in people as they would rather focus on their world in their phone rather than speak to the person they are with."
from BuzzFeed - Breaking http://ift.tt/1s7S61V
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