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Rui Miguel Pedrosa: Photos of Technology Getting in the Way of Pictures

Chris Gampat
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05/28/2015
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Last Updated on 05/28/2015 by Chris Gampat

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All images by Rui Miguel Pedrosa. Used with permission.

Photographer Rui Miguel Pedrosa hails from Portugal and has an interesting project called Devocao Tecnolgica; and it’s all featuring photos of people using their tablets and phones while getting in the way of other people taking pictures. He tells us that he got into photography as a joke to begin with, but then the passion stated to grow to the point where his daily living is made as a photojournalist and has been since 2008.

“In our current society people give so much importance to having photos/video of certain moments that they forget, really, to live them!!” says Rui about the project. The idea spurred from wanting to shoot something out of the ordinary at the Shrine of Fatima in Portugal. Before, folks would simply just be there, but after a while more and more technology started making its presence known.

Rui says that he has nothing against these people at all, but that he’s also obsessed with the idea of capturing the moment. “So in a way I understand the fact that you are shooting everything. But then the experience led me to realize that there are times when it has to be only ours.”

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.