In the video, Apple explains that it worked with
global image makers and some of the world's best photographers to combine timeless lighting principles with machine learning techniques.The result was the Portrait Lighting feature available in Portrait Mode on the iPhone X and the iPhone 8 Plus.
This work draws upon the patterns and motifs used by Persian rug
makers, especially the way Afghani weavers use the rug to record their experiences more literally with vivid
images of the war torn land that surrounds them.This collision between the old and the new, fact and fiction, surveillance and invisibility, is part of a strategy to reflect on the
global order of things.