Hank was invited by Times Magazine to create the March 2, 2020 cover featuring a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. Made in January in Los Angeles, Hank photographed actor Ty Brittingham, who served as a stand-in for King. Using this footage and utilizing the posing and lighting, a team of digital human experts at studio Digital Domain reach a digital re-creation of King from The March —the work of a diverse team of VFX artists who were tasked with showing the civil rights leader exactly as he looked on the day of Aug. 28, 1963. The cover featured a two dimensional rendering of figure.

“The session itself was a learning process…when we got approached to do this kind of groundbreaking portrait of one of our heroes, Martin Luther King Jr., who has been inspiring us for decades, I was super excited,” he says. “There were a lot of unknowns about the technology, about how you can do digital face mapping to produce images. It was a really amazing kind of learning experience for everyone involved.”

“The shoot wonderfully captured Hank’s collaborative approach to making art,” TIME’s director of photography Katherine Pomerantz said.