The NYC DOH uses photoshop too

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Couldn't they have found someone who actually lost their leg to diabetes, rather than create one?

NYT wrote: Have you seen this man?

Well, yes, you probably have. He is the poster person in the city health department’s latest anti-obesity ad campaign — for which his right leg was, The New York Times reported Tuesday, Photoshopically removed at the knee to simulate the effects of diabetes.

But we’re looking for the actual guy, the model who posed for the picture, so that we can get his thoughts on his sudden fame and mutilation.

Here’s what we know so far: the photo seems to have been taken in a studio in 2008 by a New York-based photographer, Morten Smidt, who sold it to the stock photo agency Image Source, which has it listed in its portfolio as “portrait of overweight man.”

A poster of a man who supposedly lost his leg to diabetes has been going up in the subways of New York.

The more familiar version of the photo.

Mr. Smidt says he never knew the man’s name. Image Source says it cannot divulge it.

Image Source’s portfolio of the man includes 12 photos of him. He is fairly flexible: in one of the pictures, he’s doing a modified split.

If you are the man and would like to speak with us, or if you can help put us in touch with him, please e-mail us at [email protected].

source: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/he-has-two-legs-but-what-about-his-name/?ref=nyregion