I’ve been on the campaign for twenty something months, so I would see the artwork, I would photograph it, and think ‘what is with this image’? But it didn’t snap. It never occurred to me it was my picture.
— Photographer Mannie Garcia’s reaction upon learning that a photo of his from 2006 was used as the basis for Shepard Fairey’s iconic “Hope” poster, depicting Barack Obama in illustrated form. Philadelphia Inquirer photographer Tom Gralish has pursued the original source photo, first thought to have been an image by Reuters photographer Jim Young.
