You are destroying the moment even as you are documenting it – Breaking News & Latest Updates 2026
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“You are destroying the moment even as you are documenting it.”

So said Daniel Plasche, co-director of a Berlin venue, while talking to The New York Times about the club’s decision to follow other nightclubs by putting stickers on customers’ smartphone camera lenses.

“There is something unifying, ritualistic about the dance floor,” he added, but the atmosphere was ruined when people use their phones to take images that “they will never look at again, anyways.”

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