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Manuela Thames's avatar

The head tilt towards our device…. Very 21st century.

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Richard Partridge's avatar

Absolutely - I didn't intend to make this a smoke and phone collection - more a 'take a break' but this is what came out ...

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Marco & Sabrina's avatar

Anthropology is unarguable!

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Marco & Sabrina's avatar

Which is a tad depressing in truth! Interesting to compare these with pre smartphone era breaks. Love to imagine we had out noses in a paperback or heaven forbid talked to each other!

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gery's avatar

Lol, I'm reading your post during my break. Very recognizable!

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Richard Partridge's avatar

Perfect timing lol!

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Rod Bluhm's avatar

Your photos are great. Thanks, Richard!

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Richard Partridge's avatar

Thank you Rod - you're very welcome!

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Turbomang's avatar

Every photo the people are on their phone, I’d like to see people relaxing with nature away from phones and stress

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Richard Partridge's avatar

It wasn't intended as a collection with phones but somehow just turned out this way ... I have been wanting to do a collection with people reading books but i'm quite short of ten good ones as of this moment!

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Mark White's avatar

I begrudgingly give you a like! The photos are fine, don't take offense, please, but I long for a random shot of a crowd with no one holding a phone! That should be a theme of a photo contest. Call me anachronistic and old school. 😬😬😬

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Richard Partridge's avatar

I humbly accept your like Mark ... and I think it will be my mission to see whether I can fulfil your request ... but I wouldn't hold your breath lol! My 18 year old just showed me some video of a gig he went to and what I was astounded by were the number of people videoing on their phones ... I feel that in ten years time things will be very different - hopefully. I need to dig out a series I took in 1996 along Oxford Street ... not many phones in those!

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Donn Dobkin's avatar

I like this series a lot. And wow that’s a lot of people smoking as recently as 2023. Big Tobacco keeps on…

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Richard Partridge's avatar

Thank you Donn - vaping is slowly creeping in - but you're right it's surprising how many real smokers there still are!

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Jennifer Lauck's avatar

Heartbreaking. The devil in the palm. Never look up. Never see creation or the creator.

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Tom Janiak's avatar

Signum temporis.

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