A 19 year old film photographer/videographer based in London, UK. She also possesses an unexplainable passion for the USA.
A double cover editorial by Chloe Sheppard
X and Y are close friends. They spend all day sending their photos via smartphone. X and Y are in their twenty-something. They spend a reasonable amount of free time chatting on their university courses, texting each other about trips they’ve never made, boys they’ve never kissed and holidays they’ve never taken.
They don’t meet much in real life. X comes from a very small cattle town up north, while Y lives downtown. Every day, they find each other on Messenger, in their digital stories. X and Y are never alone.
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About (Anti)social Media from Juxapoz Magazine:
“Chloe Sheppard’s ‘(Anti)social Media’ touches down on the feeling of falling second-place to technology in a series of thought-provoking images depicting countless downcast eyes and telephones in hand. Whether these people were actually on their phones during what should’ve been a time for human interaction, or she asked the models of various shoots to go on their phones while she snapped a pic, the results are impactful; the viewer of this collection feels completely disregarded. This was Sheppard’s hope for the tone of the photographs, as she has ‘always felt more like someone who is always on the outside looking in’ and was hoping ‘to show a particular sense of invisibility whilst trying to talk to someone who is also on their phone.’ Sheppard also touches down on the sense of vacancy in today’s generation of documentation and her own decision to cut the majority of social media out of her life. She communicates that “the key thing to remember with social media is ‘WE SEE WHAT THEY WANT US TO SEE’, it’s too easy to create a perfect life through these screens. So put them down.”
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