You never know which choices in life are going to reverberate throughout the years ahead. The blind date you almost skipped, but hey, now you’re married to that person. The time you went to help your friend choose a cat to adopt, and walked out with a dog friend for life. Or the time you did a stock photo shoot for satirical feminist site Reductress, and your life changed forever.
That’s Jim Murtagh, a singer/songwriter and illustrator who also happens to be Reductress’s go-to face when they run a headline about a shitty dude. In a conversation with MEL, Murtagh talks about how he would up sitting for these fateful images, what it’s like to be the default for ‘horrible man’ in face only, and how his family feels about it.
From the story:
Fortunately for Murtagh, he’s never had “anyone actively think it’s real,” but friends and family often wonder if people will start to “subconsciously associate me with all these awful things because it’s always my picture with the headlines.”