In which gesture, the selfie and the portrait are confounded..
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A close in photograph of a phone screen showing smudges, finger prints and detritus by Jeremias Zylberberg.
Simone. (Nokia Lumia x)
A close in photograph of a phone screen showing smudges and wear by Jeremias Zylberberg.
Sada. (iPhone 5s)
A close in photograph of a phone screen showing smudges, finger prints and detritus by Jeremias Zylberberg.
Jerry. (Sony Xperia Z3 Compact)
Matt. (Samsung Galaxy Note 5)
"Permit me to suggest in your columns, what has already been suggested in my recent book on "Finger Prints," that photographers might find it worth their while to persuade customers to have enlarged prints made of the impression of one or more of their fingers.. and that the wish to have prints taken of the fingers might become a fashion which photographers would find it lucrative to promote." Francis Galton, Photographic Work, February 10th, 1893.
The photographs in this series are made from the blank screens of the subjects' mobile phones. They are intended as a reflection on identity and technology. 
Part portrait, part trace of gesture, each photograph captures extremely intimate physiological, biomechanical and habitual information about its subject.