This page is part of the Hoax Photo Database, which catalogs examples of photo fakery throughout the history of photography. Included in the database are photos that are "real," but which have been suspected of being fake, as well as images whose veracity remains undetermined. The images are categorized by theme, technique of fakery, and time period.

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The festive talking holiday gnome. Record a personalized message, and listen as Henry repeats it back in his high-pitched squeaky gnome voice!
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Tourist Guy
Status: Fake (composite)
Date: Circulating online since September 2001.
Millions of people shared this photo via email in the weeks following September 11, 2001. A caption claimed the photo showed, "A simple tourist getting himself photographed on the top of the WTC just seconds before the tragedy ... the camera was found in the rubble!!"

It was eventually learned that the image was the work of a Hungarian man named Peter Guzli. He had pasted an image of a plane (from a photo by Jonathan Derden which he had found online), into a snapshot of himself posing while visiting the World Trade Center's observation deck in 1997.
References:
Tourist Guy, Hoaxipedia.
Technique: Composite Images. Time Period: 2000-2004.
Themes: Imagining Disaster, Planes, Striking a Pose.

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