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November 10, 2013 10:03 am -05

Introducing the Invisible Photographer Whose Photos Are Everywhere

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Evan Amos was reading a Wikipedia article about the Nintendo Wii console when he noticed something peculiar

"The picture they used was awful — really low-quality," he recalls

Amos, a freelance photographer, was sitting at home in his Brooklyn, N.Y. apartment. He had a Wii system of his own, in the next room, and therefore, decided to replace it with a new, more professional-looking photo. Using his DSLR and a pair of strobe lights, he snapped a picture and uploaded it to the site:

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Feeling satisfied, and now curious, he pulled up Wikipedia pages for other gaming systems. Again, the same low-resolution photos for thumbnails. "So I replaced those, too," he says Read more...

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