The California publication’s Michelle Woo wrote Thursday: “A friend of mine, Michael Schennum, is the short-haired gentleman in the top row, center, behind the letter “M.” He is half Chinese and half white. Not Latino. Not even a little bit.

Schennum, who is a staff photographer for The Arizona Republic, wrote on his Facebook page, ‘“They never told me what it was for or [asked] if I was Latino.’