Obama: The College Years

In 1980, when Obama was a freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles, he was approached by an aspiring photographer named Lisa Jack (who is now a psychologist), who asked him if he would be willing to pose for some black and white photographs that she could use in her portfolio.

On a dare from a skeptical friend, Jack decided to track down her negatives from the shoot. After finding the negatives in her basement, she put them in a safety-deposit box, so that they could not be used until after the election, when there would be no chance they could be used for a political purpose.

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