The journal National Geographic conducts competitions that define the best photo of the year, and the winner in 2014 has the technology as a theme. Brian Yen took the title with photo “The Node Glows in the Dark”, which shows a woman stirring in the cell within a crowded train from Hong Kong.
Speaking to the magazine Yen said that the image has two interesting sides: the first shows how technology is able to free people. “Our existence is no longer stuck in the physical here,” he says.
However, there is also the fact that people do not strive to be more sociable because they do not need to communicate with anyone is around. In the case of the photographed woman, she played the only five-minute drive away, and still used the cell to escape the moment.
The train returning from Ocean Park and along the way, the lights go out to display ocean animations. When that happened, there was only the blue light of the images and that mobile screen of the vineyard. The woman was the only one in wagon to use the phone at the time.
As a reward for the click that won almost 9300 people from 150 countries, Yen received a collective prize pool of $ 10 thousand and a trip to the headquarters of National Geographic. See a larger size here.
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