My current job and career has consisted of living on my phone, on social media.
There are just so many partnerships, brand handles and campaigns to manage that I honestly can’t manage to log off even when I’m on my own @directedbydon account.
So I deactivated a month ago, and just came back and outside of my professional work commitments I’m going to try to be present IRL. So far, I’ve managed to curb my fomo.
How many times have I been at a dinner table with family and friends and checked my phone? Or taken pictures only to spend the next 20 minutes re-capturing the same photo to see if I got the perfect one? After all this only to remember taking the photo, but not the memory of spending time with people.
This is the also main reason why I switched to shooting on film, I have no idea what the photo is, and I don’t really think about it. The break on Instagram was nice, but maybe in the coming year I’ll take longer time offline. I’ll still be here from time to time with photos from family, friends, events, short films, etc.
