Casio Exilim /
Camera, Phone, Book


The Casio Exilim phone is a camera, and a phone, a camera phone, if you will. The phones 5.1 megapixel camera is housed in a waterproof and shockproof unit combining Casio’s ground breaking Exilim and G-Shock technologies. It also captures video. So you can shoot video underwater. The culture of photography has been shifted by the rise of the on-camera phone. Imagery has never been more immediate and omnipresent. We now speak in pictures. To launch the Exilim phone we invited a broad range of photographers and creatives to shoot with the phone over the course of a week. A week in their lives. Putting the phone in the hands of people with a vision underlined the versatility and nuances inherent to phone photography and spotlighted the technical brilliance and cultural resilience of the Casio product. It also made for a wonderful group exhibition and limited edition book. The exhibition opened with much ado regaled with the beautiful and the damned. Media eyes were drawn to a cocktail of art and science with a gamut of coverage falling out the back door. The book itself lives on as a paper testament to the power of pictures procured from a duplicitous source.