This Has Got to be a Joke
The challenge at hand is to convince us that the two pictures depict the same individual. However, the black and white rendition appears as though he embarked on a Photoshop odyssey, first grafting a different visage onto his own body and then meticulously reshaping the entirety.

While it’s conceivable that the older photo hails from two decades past, the notion that both images capture the same person in the same year is a feat of belief that stretches the bounds of credulity… We might not be able to catch every photo editing trick, but we know one when we see one.
