In a world where it seems like everyone is always online, a group of Brooklyn teens are promoting a lifestyle of self-liberation from social media and technology. Founded last year by Edward R. Murrow High School student Logan Lane, the Luddite Club is named after Ned Ludd, the folkloric 18th-century English textile worker who supposedly smashed up a mechanized loom, inspiring others to take up his name and riot against industrialization. At the club’s weekly meeting, members put away their phones and pull out their sketchbooks, watercolor kits and novels. Lane says it all began during lockdown, when her social media use took a troubling turn. “I became completely consumed,” she said. After deleting Instagram and putting her phone away in a box, she first experienced life in the city as a teenager without an iPhone — borrowing novels from the library, admiring graffiti when she rode the subway and no longer falling asleep to the glow of her phone at midnight. “All of us have bonded over this unique cause,” Lane said. “To be in the Luddite Club, there’s a level of being a misfit to it.” Read more from @nytstyle about the teens who extol the benefits of a smartphone-free lifestyle at the link in our bio. Photos by @scottrossii