People questioned whether a Super Bowl ad for the Christian campaign “He Gets Us” used artificial intelligence to show images of people washing other people’s feet. multiple adsThe minute-long ad, which aired during the game’s first quarter, featured more than 10 images that seemed surreal at first glance. It showed people of different ages, genders and races washing someone else’s foot in a variety of settings — a school hallway, a front yard, a desert landscape, a protest.
The third image shows what looks like a high school hallway, with two students in the foreground, one pouring water on the foot of the other. They were photographs taken by fine-art photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten. She confirmed she took the photos in an email to PolitiFact, and He Gets Usdescribes her photography style as"highly cinematic visual storytelling," and says that in her larger projects, each image"embellishes her subject matter in a series of thought-provoking narrative ‘stories.’