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On his first day at a Chinese treatment camp for young people addicted to the Internet, Lorenzo Maccotta lived liked everyone else there: awake at 5 a.m., physical training in the morning, lunch, rest, more training, ethics lessons, war movies, dinner and bed.
Only once he'd been through a quick version of the digital detox did Maccotta lift his camera.
The 33-year-old photographer spent about a week at one of the hundreds of the military-style boot camps where young Chinese people are quarantined from their compulsive use of technology, mostly online gaming. Even as an outsider, it was difficult to protect his vision and keep his distance from the rigors of the program.
"The main challenge was to keep my mind away from the repetition imposed by the school," he said. "It was not easy to find the distance to set a point of view."