Andy Burnham wearing a red Big Issue tabard and holding copies of the magazine
Shepard Fairey has drawn Andy Burnham for the cover of Big Issue’s November 2026 edition. Photograph: Shepard Fairey/Big Issue
Shepard Fairey has drawn Andy Burnham for the cover of Big Issue’s November 2026 edition. Photograph: Shepard Fairey/Big Issue
Obama portrait artist draws Burnham for Big Issue cover to highlight rough sleeping vow

Exclusive: Shepard Fairey says image will hold PM accountable over promise to get people off the streets

The “Hope” portrait of Barack Obama by the US street artist Shepard Fairey came to symbolise a historic 2008 presidential campaign, became one of the most ubiquitous and reproduced political portraits of modern times, and ended up in the Smithsonian.