Sean Rocha

Hipstamatic at war

The iPhone app Hipstamatic seemed cool for a while: all those retro saturated colors tapped into a nostalgia for Polaroids.  Then some PR agency did its job too well and it seemed like every media outlet was writing about how cool Hipstamatic was; suddenly, the thrill was gone.  But now Balazs Gardi has put Hipstamatic to good use by bringing it to the war in Afghanistan and the results — which can be seen in this Foreign Policy magazine slideshow — are incredibly evocative.

It turns out that Hipstamatic was just underutilized in Williamsburg and is really in its element in Kabul.  Who knew?

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 11th, 2011 at 1:18 pm. It is filed under That is Genius and tagged with Afghanistan, Balazs Gardi, Hipstamatic, iPhone, photography, politics, portraits, war. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.