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M D Morgan

Photographer

Erosion of Now




The following images capture moments where individuals unknowingly withdraw from the physical world into their screens. Each frame asks: What are we giving up when we trade presence for pixels?



A young man in a hooded top sits on a kerb absorbed in his phone.A torn billboard of a face peeling away from a wall.A woman sits on concrete steps looking at her phone.Students in white shirts sit on steps, most of them looking at phones.Two women in black stand against a wall, one looking at her phone.A silhouette behind a window streaked with condensation.A billboard of a hand and an orange fan above a perfume shop on a Hanoi street.A billboard showing a woman's neck and a cosmetic bottle.A giant phone advertisement on the side of an apartment block.Two men in singlets sit on a cart, one looking at his phone.A weathered phone advertisement painted on a wall.A street stall lit pink, a woman standing at the counter.A woman in pink sits cross-legged on a printed mat holding her phone.Men rest among sacks in a narrow street, one looking at his phone.A carved stone elephant on a street corner.A billboard of a face behind a tangle of overhead cables.Two women sit on a green bench, both looking at their phones.A woman crouches with a child on her back beside a red scooter.A clothing stall with mannequin legs and a red parasol.Red plastic stools set out on a street, a man seated among them.A billboard of a woman holding a phone above a glass-fronted building.A weathered mural of a young man holding a phone, paint peeling from the wall.A man in a red jacket leans over his phone on a parked scooter.A billboard of a woman looking at her phone, split by a red pillar.A man sits against a pole beside a parked car and a Vietnamese flag.A man crouches behind a clear plastic sheet, lit by his phone.A street in Kuala Lumpur with the Petronas Towers beyond, a woman in white walking.Young people sit against a blue shopfront, most looking at phones.A woman crouches over shoes laid out on a footpath, phone in hand.A large golden Buddha rises behind palm trees and power lines.Commuters wait on a railway platform, one looking at his phone.A young man sits hunched on a plastic stool, head down over a tablet.Two people share a phone on a blue plastic chair in the street.A person's legs hang from the back of a truck beside a yellow shutter.A man lies asleep across the seats of a blue truck, feet out the window.Men sit outside a fruit stall, one absorbed in his phone.A blue-shuttered shopfront with a figure asleep in the shadow.A cracked and weathered mural of a young man's face.A young officer in blue uniform sits on steps looking at a phone.Two men sit talking on a cycle rickshaw.A torn poster showing a hand holding a phone.