Achates : The smartphone diary 2025.09.19- 10.04.2025 (Self experiments - the cell phone experience Book 1)

For a passionate photographer, taking pictures with a phone is an unprecedented form of self-humiliation. It would be better if he took pictures with a piece of toast, as my friend Esther put it.I always liked being someone who refused to be a contemporary of this era. Until I realized that without a smartphone, you slowly start to be treated like a pariah. When even the aggressive beggars in the city center have several smartphones hanging around their thick, wobbly hips, I can no longer stand on the sidelines. Not to mention the problems of finding your luggage in Andorra when you don't have a smartphone.I consider smartphones to be the worst invention of mankind. They do more damage to the mind than the atomic bomb: complete annihilation of the intellect.Nevertheless, I subjected myself to a self-experiment and used a good friend's discarded smartphone to... take pictures. You can't call it photography. I wanted to test for myself how far my photography would degenerate into snapshots. No Tele-Rolleiflex, no Leica M6. Smartphone. Smartphone as a means of photographic self-humiliation.I'll show the results here for a while. Eventually, they'll disappear.Even entire planets disappear. When the Earth is gone, the universe will be more peaceful. And smartphone-free.Pictures from downtown Hanover, Lower Saxony, a Muslim slum Read more