The photo, titled “Potato #345 (2010),” was shot by famous photographer Kevin Abosch, who shoots portraits of famous business people in the Silicon Valley tech industry and charge them huge fees.

Abosch’s “iconic black backdrop” portraits have become a sort of status symbol among the elites of business and entertainment with the rich and famous paying over $150,000 for a photo shoot with Abosch, as PetaPixel says.

But, apart from shooting pricey portraits, Abosch is also a fine art photographer, and that’s how this potato photo came about.

“Kevin likes potatoes because they, like people are all different yet immediately identifiable as being essentially of the same species,” his studio tells PetaPixel. “He has photographed many potatoes. This one is one of his favorites.”

A rich buyer who collects Abosch’s work visited the photographer’s Paris home in 2015, saw the photo and wanted to buy it for his collection paying 1,000,000 euros.