Dubai expatriate’s photo hits billboards worldwide

The photo taken with an iPhone 6 camera by Hattan Ahmed at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) is one of the snapshots of 77 photographers chosen by Apple as part of its World Gallery campaign.

The billboards, titled “Shot on iPhone 6” reportedly went up on March 2 to further promote iPhone’s image capture capabilities, and have been spotted in major cities and far-flung locales in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Ahmed’s photo can also be seen in billboards in San Francisco, Miami and New York in the United States, as well as in some cities in Italy and Australia, among others.

Ahmed’s winning work is a black-and-white photo of two passersby walking on a bridge that connects DIFC to the Gate Village. He took the image last October and it was only a few months later when he realized that mobile phone cameras can take winning photos as well.