因长相酷似美国总统奥巴马，印度尼西亚一位34岁的青少年杂志摄影师在几年间变身成为超级明星。

Jakarta photographer Ilham Anas, in full President Obama persona with reporters in tow, tours the school the real Obama attended as a boy.

Striding（大步行走，跨步） purposefully, his smile lighting¹ up a rainy afternoon, Barack Obama appears to have arrived to tour an elementary school he attended as a boy. But wait. It's not him. The US president is back in Washington, D.C., shepherding（带领，看管） his health-care bill toward passage.

So who is this guy?

He's Ilham Anas, 34, a teen-magazine photographer who has parlayed a striking（显著的，突出的） resemblance（相似之处） to Obama into his own brand of celebrity² and wealth.

Since his sister told him in 2007 that he looked like the then-presidential candidate, Anas' face and megawatt smile have been seen on Southeast Asian TV and the Internet, pitching（铺地石） over-the-counter medicine and other products.

He has also appeared on his nation's premier³ television-talk show and had a cameo（配角，小品文） in a movie, all while fielding offers from marketers across Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines.

Anas is the first to admit it: He's an impostor（骗子，冒充者） . But he'll also tell you this: He's in incredible demand.

"I've got so much work I can't handle it all," he said. He's even penned an autobiography⁴（自传） , "Because of Obama." The jacket review says Anas' resemblance to the president has "turned his life around 180 degrees."

It hasn't been easy.

When his sister first mentioned the resemblance, Anas said, he dismissed（摒弃，开除） it. "I said: 'Nah. I don't care.' "

Then a colleague at the magazine asked him to pose as Obama wearing a power suit, in front of a U.S. flag. At first he refused.

"I told him that I'm a photographer, not an object for the camera," he said.

As soon as he relented（变宽厚，减弱） , his career took off.

The married father of two children is rarely home these days. On a recent day, a horde⁵ of（一群） reporters followed him on a tour of the elementary school Obama once attended.

Anas sat in the classroom where the future president studied. He mugged for the cameras and spoke⁶ a few lines in English. The moment he opened his mouth, however, the differences became apparent.

"Obama is a baritone（男中音） ," Anas said. "I'm not. I sound like a little boy."

He is also shorter than the president. But he makes up for that by practicing Obama's mannerisms（特殊习惯，矫揉造作） . Before public appearances, he said, he spends hours in front of the mirror posing, gesturing, flashing that smile.

Otherwise, Anas said, he hasn't altered his appearance much for the role. He wears his hair just like he did in high school in Bandung, a few hours' drive from Jakarta. But he did shape his eyebrows⁷ to look more like those of the president.

Anas said he used to（过去经常，习惯） view his reflection and not like what he saw. Now he no longer sees an average guy. Now he sees a superstar.

Meanwhile, offers continue to flood in.

So Anas will keep posing, smiling and cashing the checks. For now, he is keeping his own brand of hope: that Obama will win a second term in the White House.

"The longer he's in office, the longer my 15 minutes of fame will last," he said.