Locate Photo’s Original Source
Budget: $10 – $30 USD
I will upload a personal photo that I need traced back to its very first appearance so I can confirm its authenticity. I’m only interested in an exact, pixel-perfect match—cropped, filtered, or re-compressed versions won’t satisfy the brief.
Once you have the file, feel free to deploy any combination of reverse-image search tools, metadata forensics, social-media crawling, or archive digging. What matters is solid proof that pinpoints where and when this identical image was first published.
Deliverables
• Direct URL(s) hosting the same, unaltered file
• Earliest verifiable timestamp or publication date at each link
• Screenshot or small report that shows how you confirmed the match and the steps taken
Acceptance criteria: at least one source link that, when the image is downloaded, matches the file I provided bit-for-bit, accompanied by clear evidence of its upload date.
Once you have the file, feel free to deploy any combination of reverse-image search tools, metadata forensics, social-media crawling, or archive digging. What matters is solid proof that pinpoints where and when this identical image was first published.
Deliverables
• Direct URL(s) hosting the same, unaltered file
• Earliest verifiable timestamp or publication date at each link
• Screenshot or small report that shows how you confirmed the match and the steps taken
Acceptance criteria: at least one source link that, when the image is downloaded, matches the file I provided bit-for-bit, accompanied by clear evidence of its upload date.