We know by now that we’ve become worryingly dependent on our phones. We sleep with them by our beds. We use them for everything from navigation systems to a way to stay in touch with our grandmas. We find ourselves feeling lost without them, our hands fidgeting, looking for something to grasp to connect us to the rest of the world.
Photographer Ritzo ten Cate’s project, Caught In The App. Caught In The App is a photo series that started back in 2016 and has captured hundreds of faces since.
Ritzo hits the streets, finds a busy area, and waits for people to bump into his camera. It happens often, because, well, people are staring at their phones rather than looking up and ahead. That’s when he takes the picture – when the people have momentarily been brought out of the world of their phone and back into reality. When they look up, slightly dazed and disorientated.
‘My intention is to bring them back into our world,’ Ritzo tells Metro.co.uk. ‘Nothing more nothing less. No aggression. No judgement. They walk, give me their glimpses, we (usually) talk and they move on.’
The responses tend to fit into one of three categories: 1. They immediately admit that they are addicted to their phones and want to change, 2. They go right back to focusing on their phone, or 3. They feel embarrassed.
Smartphones make it easy to travel permanently between these worlds. To warp. The soul leaves the body to another dimension or world or whatever. A comatic body remains like in the matrix.
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