Baghdad in Hipstamatic: 10 Years Since Iraq Invasion
Photographer Patrick Baz captures daily life in Iraq with his iPhone. Using the photography app Hipstamatic, daily scenes from Baghdad are given an antique film-like effect. Ten years since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, these images show a country that is still struggling to rebuild.
An Iraqi vendor waits for customers outside his shop decorated with pictures of Imam Hussein, revered by Shiite Muslims, in Baghdad's Karrada district, Feb. 4, 2013. (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images)
An Iraqi man walks past a building in Baghdad's Karrada district, Feb. 5, 2013. (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images)
Entangled electricity wires on Al-Rashid Street in Baghdad, Feb. 2, 2013. (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images)
An exercise machine is strapped on top of a car on Al-Rashid Street in Baghdad, Feb. 2, 2013. (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images)
Iraqi street vendors grill cut-open carp used in masgoof, Iraq's signature dish, in Baghdad's Karrada Street, Feb. 7, 2013. (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images)
An Iraqi flag is reflected on a 1958 Chrysler during the Friday motor show in Baghdad's district of Al-Jadriya, Feb. 8, 2013. (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images)
Iraqi youth stand next to a Chevrolet Corvette from the 1970s during the Friday motor show in the Baghdad's district of Al-Jadriya, Feb. 8, 2013. (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images)
An Iraqi woman walks past concrete barriers in Baghdad, Feb. 7, 2013. (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images)
Iraqi flags hang over tombstones at the Sunni Martyrs' cemetery of Baghad's Al-Adhamiyah district, Feb. 5, 2013. (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images)
The Haidar Khaneh mosque on Baghdad's Al-Rashid Street, Feb. 3, 2013. (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images)
A poster of radical Iraqi Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr in Baghdad's Sadr City, Feb. 5, 2013. (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images)
Christian and Muslim religious figures depicted on rugs for sale at a shop in Baghdad's Al-Rashid Street, Feb. 2, 2013. (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images)
An Iraqi man throws a garbage bag, Feb. 3, 2013, near the ruins of the Ottoman-era Serail (government building) that was looted and burnt during the U.S. invasion of Baghdad. (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images)
An Iraqi man rides a horse-pulled cart loaded with boxes on Al-Rashid Street in Baghdad, Feb.2, 2013. (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images)
An Iraqi man rides a horse-pulled cart loaded with boxes on Al-Rashid Street in Baghdad, Feb.2, 2013. (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images)
Iraqis sit in Shah Bandar cafe, one of the oldest cafes in Baghdad, located on Al-Mutanabi Street, Feb. 3, 2013. (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images)
Iraqi men sit at a barber shop on Shorja Street in Baghdad, Feb. 2, 2013. (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images)