Dennis Pozniak

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Dennis Pozniak (born May 10, 1981) is a published photographer^[1] and freelance web designer residing in Edmonton Alberta, Canada. Pozniak is most notable for the Bert is Evil mirror website he ran between 1998-2001. The website was shut down in 2001 in the month following the 9/11 attacks. The cause for the shut down was a photochopped image, originally posted to his site in 1998, of the Sesame Street Muppet 'Bert' posing in a picture with Osama bin Laden that was later photographed at a pro-bin Laden protest rally in Bangladesh. Pozniak was subsequently bombarded with international media requests^[2] and became a local "celebrity" for several days.

Currently his only mainstream project is a small Edmonton photoblog called SeeShare.com, which he maintains in his spare time. He also currently runs a small Hemp Store in North Edmonton called Bogart's Pipes & Papers.

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1. ^ Pozniak's photograph was used as the cover photo for the book: Edmonton on Location (Edited by Heather Zwicker. ISBN 1-897126-02-6): [1]
2. ^ Oct 11, 2001 ABC News: The Wolf Files article about Dennis Pozniak at Archive.org
   • Oct 12, 2001 National Post article about Dennis Pozniak at Archive.org