What your smartphone addiction actually looks like

If you are one of the thousands of Washington Post readers accessing this page on your smartphone, please chill for a minute. Look around. Observe the commuters or bored line-waiters or distracted dining companions around you. Chances are, says Babycakes Romero, a London-based photographer, you’ll notice plenty of other people who are suctioned to their screens. Because for better or worse, the cellphone has become modern society’s security blanket: a way to protect ourselves from the inherent loneliness or awkwardness of the human condition … but also an unlikely source of both.