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Captured by Alesia in Chelmsford, MA aka Photography by Philoon

Captured by Alesia Website: https://www.capturedbyalesia.com/
Captured by Alesia Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61594153377782
Captured by Alesia TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capturedbyalesia

Photography by Philoon Website (currently down): https://photographybyphiloon.shootproof.com/
Photography by Philoon Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Capturedbyalesia/
Photography by Philoon Instagram Page (currently down): https://www.instagram.com/photography.byphiloon
Photography by Philoon TikTok (currently down): https://www.tiktok.com/@photographybyphiloon

I hope you have time because this is a long one!

This photographer has gone through quite a few name changes – not only of her photography business but also of the Facebook personal account she is using. She’s currently using Alesia Ann Grace but has used Alesia Manning in the past.

The imagery she’s posting online various from a smattering of her own intermixed with likely AI generated images and stolen images.

Alesia has been posting a lot on Facebook offering a too-good-to-be-true deal for weddings and posting it in budget bride groups offering a discounted package for wedding photography and videography for anywhere in the USA without travel fees. On one post there’s almost 90 comments.

This post has been removed but there are screenshots still remaining online.

Unknown source image one, original source image two
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Katerina Visuals by Katerina Emanovska aka Emans Katie in San Diego, CA

Website: https://katerinavisuals.pixieset.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katerinarose98

This is an odd one so buckle up.

Also I’m not 100% sure of her location in California as she posts in LA, OC, Newport Beach and San Diego areas. It appears that she may have been in the DMV area at one point too.

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Craig Peterman Photography in Tucson, AZ

Website: https://craigpetermanphotography.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/craigpetermanphotography/
Zola: https://www.zola.com/wedding-vendors/wedding-photographers/peterman-photography
Wedding Wire: https://www.weddingwire.com/biz/peterman-photography-video/07ff76cf586c891f.html

Also Owns:
Peterman Media Productions https://www.petermanmediaproductions.com/
Modern Heirloom Studios (mirror of Peterman Media Productions website) https://www.modernheirloomstudios.com/

Used to go by:
Timeless Visions, Peterman Media, Peterman Photography & Video, and Arizona Aerial Photography & Videography

When I first started this investigation I thought that it was just a case of a photographer leaving the placeholder images from the website template Craig is using (note, there’s a lot of photographers who have left these images up, replace them with your own!!!!). The website was published on 11/23/2025 and that’s plenty of time to get the placeholder images off your website.

However, the more I searched the more images came back that were not originally captured by Craig NOR were they in the template. For a photographer who claims to earn over six figures in wedding photography (this article includes stock images © Craig Peterman BTW) and is a director with the WIPA this is absolutely unacceptable. Stock imagery should never be used to represent a photographer’s body of work.

Craig’s position with the WIPA

Even if we’re willing to suspend belief that Craig had no idea the images on his website were not captured by him or his team at some point it becomes too much to dismiss as the same images appear on his Instagram, Facebook, Zola, Wedding Wire etc.

I hit a point where I just started writing on the image what is stock because it’s a LOT. I’m over 100 images in and I just have to call it quits on the sourcing.

I also found this wasn’t the first time Craig has been called out for using stolen images.

Craig Peterman Photography used to go by Peterman Photo & Video and Arizona Aerial Photography & Videography and when he was running the Arizona Aerial Photography & Videography he was accused of stealing photos back in 2020.

And again in 2022 a wedding client left a negative review on Google pointing out the use of stock images so this isn’t a new issue that popped up with a new website template. Of course Craig blamed a social media manager back then. If that were true, wouldn’t you be extra vigilant when it comes to what imagery is posted to your website and claimed to be yours?

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MoniqueZJ Photography in Reston, VA

Website: https://www.moniquezjphotography.com/

Apparently the floodgates have opened?

It’s been a while since I’ve had a photographer bold enough to put their watermark on stolen photos. I honestly am unsure if any of the images on her website are hers, I just couldn’t find sources for all of them.

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Fariss Photography in Washington DC / VA / MD

Website: https://www.farissphotography.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fariss.photography
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fariss.photography

While Bonfauxtage may have been the first I knew she wouldn’t be the last photographer to steal a photo and replace the subject with another one and repost as their own image. I believe Fariss Photography may have used Photoshop or something like it instead of AI but the end result is the same, an image that is a derivative work of someone else’s copyrighted image that hasn’t been changed substantially enough to be considered new. I have confirmed that Fariss was not alongside these photographers.

Fariss Photography is also yet another high-end photographer so I gotta ask, you all OK in that market? Is it too much to ask you use your own imagery on your website?

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