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SUR-FAKE: have smartphones really stolen our souls?

Dependence on technology has reached epidemic proportions.

SUR-FAKE is a series of photographs by French photographer Antoine Geiger that depicts people in everyday situations with their gazes sucked into smartphone screens. But with an important detail. With photo manipulation, she created creepy scenes that reveal how smartphones suck us in and how we ignore the world around us. Has our obsession with portable devices gone too far? Have smartphones really stolen our souls?

SUR-FAKES is a bizarre series of photographs by a 20-year-old photographer Antoine Geiger, which addresses the problem man's addiction and obsession with technology. As a French woman living in Great Britain says, it has become a "screen subject of mass subculture, which distances us from ourselves and the physical world.” And we find proof of this at every step. At the bus stop, on the way to work, on the sofa, in a restaurant... Everywhere you will find people in semi-trance, how they stare blankly at the screen, which illuminates their face. It seems that even for tourists, couples, families, the screen has become much more interesting than the events and the people around them.”

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Dependence on technology has reached epidemic proportions.
Dependence on technology has reached epidemic proportions.

With the SUR-FAKE series, Antoine Geiger actually just adjusts the mirror. Will the shock effect wear off? We will do something about technology addiction shall we continue excessively used portable devices and convinced ourselves that we weren't already addicts?

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