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.
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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