Sunsets, disasters, dinners: we now record them all with our phones. But what is that doing to our souls? | Phoebe Greenwood

As a war correspondent, I worked with photographers who said the camera was a buffer between them and reality. It is much the same now as we snap and scroll I was sitting on a rooftop in Athens at sunset looking up at Filopappou hill. Athens in August is burning hot . Not so much hotter than London or Paris any more, but the sort of hot that makes it foolish to step out into sunlight before 6pm. E