Candid Photographs Taken Between 1998 and 2002 of People Using Mobile Phones

These candid photographs are from “The Phone Book” (2002) by British photographer Martin Parr. A project undertaken in 1998, Parr spent 4 years documenting the adoption of the cell phone. The images are divided into five locations: Europe, Hong Kong, Japan, United States and Rest of the World.

“There is no escaping this modern phenomenon and my relationship is one of ‘I couldn’t survive without it’ but what a pain in the arse they are. I try to photograph my own and society’s hypocrisy.” – Martin Parr