Have you ever considered how weird we look when we constantly stare at our smartphones (see, I did not say iPhone here) even at the most intimate of situations?

Photographer Eric Pickersgill did, and the result is a strong series – Removed – showing how the connection between us and the world comes at the expense of the connection between ourselves.

Eric did not do a lot. He only subtracted any smartphone device from real life scenes, yet asking his models to keep their gaze and focus. The result is on the epiphany level revelation.

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