Lauren Caris Cohan

Humans use technology to improve their lives, to forge connections, to create time that doesn’t exist, to replace real interactions. When we devise a second version of ourselves on social media, do we lose a piece of our true selves in the process? Do our digital connections threaten our real life relationships? What happens if the filtered characters we’ve imagined take on a life of their own?

A young American walks inside Maxim's only to realise she has landed in a different time and space. At the bar waiting for her... Ernest Hemingway.