Photographer Documents How Smartphones are Killing Dialogue

Smartphones are here to stay and despite keeping us connected with the rest of the world, it’s had the opposite effect of disconnecting us with those nearby. London-based photographer Babycakes Romero sets out to document scenes too common and widespread in today’s modern society in The Death of Conversation. The disheartening images of people heads down too preoccupied by their electronic devices instead of sharing a dialogue or interacting with each other is a harsh realization that we may indeed have a problem, literally, in our hands.