Two-faced

In a state known for political corruption, this has been a banner year for New Jersey's crooked officeholders.

Some were unlikely suspects: a Baptist minister, rabbis, a charismatic up-and-comer. That got me thinking about the two-faced nature of politicians - how they seem so sincere and yet simultaneously can be so sinister. So I decided to try to literally portray a two-faced politician in a photo illustration.

I hired a model for the shoot and photographed him making different faces in the studio. Later I took those bits and pieces of the faces and created one face, tweaking with Photoshop to make the sinister side more

frightening. I enlisted the help of Star-Ledger artist Andre Malok, a talented illustrator with whom I like collaborating. Andre, a whiz with Photoshop, turned the sinister side into a politician that would make even the toughest prosecutor cringe.

The end result is published in this month's Inside Jersey magazine.