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Soul-Sucking Photos Show How Phone Addiction Is Stealing Our Souls

French photographer Antoine Geiger creates photos of people having their faces sucked into their cellphones. The project, titled SUR-FAKE, touches on issues of technology dependance and addiction: “It is placing the screen as an object of ‘mass subculture’, alienating the relation to our own body, and more generally to the physical world.”

“Nothing was staged. I went out and captured reality,” Antoine told Bored Panda.

Antoine Geiger is a 20-year-old photographer who’s lived in England, France and the Netherlands. Over the last two years, he’s had four exhibitions, and been mentioned or published in print ten times.

UPDATE: Geiger’s work is very similar to that of Max Cavallari, another artist concerned with the influence of technology on our daily lives.

More info: antoinegeiger.com | Facebook | Tumblr

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VictorVakaras 9 years ago

The smudge tool got a good workout.

41points

EdaÇakmak 9 years ago

I think all these "technology is evil" art is as overdone and as blatant an attempt to go viral by abusing a popular concept as drawing Disney princesses in every way imaginable. Did you use to shame people that were using cameras? Reading magazines and newspapers? Looking at maps? Communicating with their loved ones? Is it really such a bad thing that I can do all of these with one device?

25points

LiekeMuller 9 years ago

Exactly my thoughts! When Im in a museum I look on my phone, because there is an interactive app that gives me interesting background info on the painting and artist. And at a cafe I read the news and an ebook on that same device. That wining about how phones are sucking out the souls of our generation just comes from old people who chopped trees to make paper for books/newspapers/hmguides etc.

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booHguy 9 years ago

How phone addiction is stealing THEIR souls, not mine...

10points

AmandaAnonda 9 years ago

God forbid someone would want to document their time here, share with their friends, or find out extra information of the paintings around them. I hate pretentious brats like this artist.

7points

LiekeMuller 9 years ago

Amen!

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VickyWood 9 years ago

What a pretentious pillock

4points

$copper.fractions avatar$

TinyDynamine 9 years ago

The shopping skills are pretty amateur, really! ;)

3points

TaliseSnyder 8 years ago

i hate how they are taking selfies with Mona Lisa instead of just enjoying the artwork...

2points

DanielYerkes 8 years ago

Ironically, most of the people who saw this artist's work in this article were using their phones.

2points

Yumyumsquad 9 years ago

i think he believes technology is evil and soul sucking because all he knows how to do is use the smudge tool in photoshop and he's mad

2points

BrechtMatthys 9 years ago

Meansville, photographers face is like this too.. But nice post anyway!

2points

TeresaNi 9 years ago

Reminds me of Doctor Who.

1point

ToraWookieeMacaw 9 years ago

I'm seeing a great Doctor Who story here...........................

1point

KellyHuang 9 years ago

i thought they were photoshopped with duck bills or something

1point

JanekBogucki 9 years ago

#face

1point

Holly Slavic 3 years ago

Brilliant.

0points

Bob Wierdsma 6 years ago

I did something akin to this with this cartoon of people stuck to their cell phones. cel-phone-...6db620.jpg

0points

Bob Wierdsma 6 years ago

I did something akin to this with this cartoon of people stuck to their cell phones.

0points

Bob Wierdsma 6 years ago

I did something akin to this with this cartoon of how people are stuck to their cell phones. cel-phone-...830b73.jpg

0points

RiverKay 8 years ago

That's not phone addition, that's THE WIRE!!! (any doctor who fans here? no? okay…)

0points

PeterPeterMontgomery 8 years ago

I would not talk to a woman who was on a phone constantly, I just think it looks closed off and cold.

0points

CupcakeQueen 8 years ago

I do think people should spend less time on their phones, but I don't think it should go as far as cell phones "Stealing Our Souls!" That's a little overdramatic!

0points

le_magicien_bergier 8 years ago

i have never take a selfie. ever. Except twice, just a capture my HAIR for my HAIRSTYLIST(this is HOW I WANT IT!!!! )

0points

DanielYerkes 8 years ago

Ironically, most of the people who saw this artist's work looked at on their phone.

0points

AnaKnight 9 years ago

Thank you for this. As simple as some may find this, I still think it is invaluable as a teaching tool regarding our obsession with technology. I have found myself being far too complacent with "veggeing out" in a dark house, with the only light being my cell phone and THAT is not good.

0points

NidhiChopra 9 years ago

technology bad for health

0points

rene_caesar 9 years ago

I think this could have been done better. Maybe a few people at dinner, but their faces are in their phones versus conversing. Things like that.

0points

MaryB 9 years ago

Wow! So true, & I totally agree with his exclamation of today's world!

0points

tarekawd 9 years ago

Period of time and will go away

0points

SusanRiley 9 years ago

To all you naysayers -- The truth hurts, doesn't it?

0points

YolandaTai 9 years ago

Dementors

0points

ScottSpiro 9 years ago

"...Remember to keep pulling the taffy on a hook until it develops a satiny sheen, becoming more opaque..."

0points

AndreaK 9 years ago

looks like that BeetleJuice character, when the were first trying to scare the family away

0points

JasonSmooth 9 years ago

Fantastic display of just how addicted we all are to our phones. The need to "stay" connected has truly disconnected us most of the time from the real world. Irony.

0points

Il'yaKarataev 9 years ago

https://xkcd.com/1601/

0points

KürşatÜnsal 9 years ago

my execution better than this https://www.dropbox.com/s/rhyxs9ns655sksk/Screen%20Shot%202015-11-10%20at%2020.07.34.png?dl=0

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KürşatÜnsal 9 years ago

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rhyxs9ns655sksk/Screen%20Shot%202015-11-10%20at%2020.07.34.png?dl=0 My execution better that

0points

CarlottaManicardi 9 years ago

http://www.celesteprize.com/artwork/ido:339497/

0points

IlMex 9 years ago

http://www.celesteprize.com/artwork/ido:339497/

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SalvatorePireddu 9 years ago

http://www.celesteprize.com/artwork/ido:339497/

0points

AnnaBalducci 9 years ago

http://www.celesteprize.com/artwork/ido:339497/ A similar project made by an italian photographer

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IlMex 9 years ago

http://www.celesteprize.com/artwork/ido:339497/

0points

DebraTemple 9 years ago

I think his photographs represent what is really going on. Very clever

0points

JeffOates 9 years ago

So important!

0points

Annie 9 years ago

Hideous photos for a hideous piece of technology ....... pretty much sums it up though.

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VictorVakaras 9 years ago

The smudge tool got a good workout.

41points

EdaÇakmak 9 years ago

25points

LiekeMuller 9 years ago

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booHguy 9 years ago

How phone addiction is stealing THEIR souls, not mine...

10points

AmandaAnonda 9 years ago

God forbid someone would want to document their time here, share with their friends, or find out extra information of the paintings around them. I hate pretentious brats like this artist.

7points

LiekeMuller 9 years ago

Amen!

1point

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VickyWood 9 years ago

What a pretentious pillock

4points

$copper.fractions avatar$

TinyDynamine 9 years ago

The shopping skills are pretty amateur, really! ;)

3points

TaliseSnyder 8 years ago

i hate how they are taking selfies with Mona Lisa instead of just enjoying the artwork...

2points

DanielYerkes 8 years ago

Ironically, most of the people who saw this artist's work in this article were using their phones.

2points

Yumyumsquad 9 years ago

i think he believes technology is evil and soul sucking because all he knows how to do is use the smudge tool in photoshop and he's mad

2points

BrechtMatthys 9 years ago

Meansville, photographers face is like this too.. But nice post anyway!

2points

TeresaNi 9 years ago

Reminds me of Doctor Who.

1point

ToraWookieeMacaw 9 years ago

I'm seeing a great Doctor Who story here...........................

1point

KellyHuang 9 years ago

i thought they were photoshopped with duck bills or something

1point

JanekBogucki 9 years ago

#face

1point

Holly Slavic 3 years ago

Brilliant.

0points

Bob Wierdsma 6 years ago

I did something akin to this with this cartoon of people stuck to their cell phones. cel-phone-...6db620.jpg

0points

Bob Wierdsma 6 years ago

I did something akin to this with this cartoon of people stuck to their cell phones.

0points

Bob Wierdsma 6 years ago

I did something akin to this with this cartoon of how people are stuck to their cell phones. cel-phone-...830b73.jpg

0points

RiverKay 8 years ago

That's not phone addition, that's THE WIRE!!! (any doctor who fans here? no? okay…)

0points

PeterPeterMontgomery 8 years ago

I would not talk to a woman who was on a phone constantly, I just think it looks closed off and cold.

0points

CupcakeQueen 8 years ago

I do think people should spend less time on their phones, but I don't think it should go as far as cell phones "Stealing Our Souls!" That's a little overdramatic!

0points

le_magicien_bergier 8 years ago

i have never take a selfie. ever. Except twice, just a capture my HAIR for my HAIRSTYLIST(this is HOW I WANT IT!!!! )

0points

DanielYerkes 8 years ago

Ironically, most of the people who saw this artist's work looked at on their phone.

0points

AnaKnight 9 years ago

0points

NidhiChopra 9 years ago

technology bad for health

0points

rene_caesar 9 years ago

I think this could have been done better. Maybe a few people at dinner, but their faces are in their phones versus conversing. Things like that.

0points

MaryB 9 years ago

Wow! So true, & I totally agree with his exclamation of today's world!

0points

tarekawd 9 years ago

Period of time and will go away

0points

SusanRiley 9 years ago

To all you naysayers -- The truth hurts, doesn't it?

0points

YolandaTai 9 years ago

Dementors

0points

ScottSpiro 9 years ago

"...Remember to keep pulling the taffy on a hook until it develops a satiny sheen, becoming more opaque..."

0points

AndreaK 9 years ago

looks like that BeetleJuice character, when the were first trying to scare the family away

0points

JasonSmooth 9 years ago

Fantastic display of just how addicted we all are to our phones. The need to "stay" connected has truly disconnected us most of the time from the real world. Irony.

0points