Time Warp

In Matthew Pillsbury’s photographs, his subjects don’t just stare at their computer screens, they vanish into them. Penelope Umbrico and Lila and Rebecca Cohn (shown) captures a mother and her daughters as they check email, send instant messages, and tend to their virtual pets over the course of a half hour. Pillsbury’s work, inspired by […]

In Matthew Pillsbury's photographs, his subjects don't just stare at their computer screens, they vanish into them. Penelope Umbrico and Lila and Rebecca Cohn (shown) captures a mother and her daughters as they check email, send instant messages, and tend to their virtual pets over the course of a half hour. Pillsbury's work, inspired by Hiroshi Sugimoto's long-exposure shots of movie theater interiors, demonstrates how humanity and technology are intertwined. "Television and computer screens have fundamentally altered the rhythms and content of our lives, and we have not questioned the change," says the 30-year-old Pillsbury, who grew up without a TV. "I'm interested in how we incorporate them into our lives and interact with them." His first solo exhibit opens at the Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York on May 27.

- Janelle Brown

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