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I Photobomb Stock Images To Inject Some Reality Into Them

For years as an art director in advertising, I shifted through hundreds of stock photos and always felt like there was something off about them.

Real people were doing real things we all do, but in the end it didn’t feel real. So in an attempt to inject some reality into these photos, I did the only thing I could think of, I injected myself by photobombing the crap out of them.

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Co-workers playing hide and seek

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I Photobomb Stock Images To Inject Some Reality Into Them

Executive doing coke behind cubicle partition

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Man enjoying girlfriend’s pits

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I Photobomb Stock Images To Inject Some Reality Into Them

Roommate with boundary issues

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Man vacuums grandparents

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Uncle drinking at niece’s birthday

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I Photobomb Stock Images To Inject Some Reality Into Them

Man being third wheel

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I Photobomb Stock Images To Inject Some Reality Into Them

Parents taking picture with son’s “friend”

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Man sent to his death by enthusiastic gesture

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I Photobomb Stock Images To Inject Some Reality Into Them

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Before he was bombing stockphotography, Matt Vescovo’snom-de-plume, whatever thatmeans, was The Master of theObvious, in which capacity he made the world a more informative yet aesthetically pleasing place withsomething he called Instructoart.Instructoart was made into threebooks, exhibited in galleries in NewYork City, London, Amsterdam,Mexico City and Toronto and wasfeatured on MTV as a series ofanimated shorts for the network.

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