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Davide Francese in Italy

Website: https://www.davidefrancese.it/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davidefrancese.it/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/francese_davide/

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Davide Francese entered a bunch of images into the WPE Awards and apparently they are not all of his original works. Sound familiar? Although it appears with Davide no monetary awards were received.

I started working on this last night but real life happened and I didn’t get to finishing it. The story has been picked up by PetaPixel and there David claims he didn’t know you couldn’t use the images from the classes he purchased in this way… and yes, there is a rule about submitting images that are your own.

As far as I have been able to research, his wedding work does appear to be his own.

He is a MQIP (Master Qualified Italian Photographer) currently and party of Team Italy for World Photographic Cup.

(Please note the difference in coloring on the screen captures is due to the images I was sent, not due to editing by Davide)

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Shoot for the Stars Photography in Cookstown, Ontario

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shoot4thestarsphotography
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shootforthestars_photography

There’s so many Pinterest photos for when she “doesn’t have time” to use her own images for advertisements. I gave up around summer 2022 but there’s a LOT here.

Reminder that I now have a Substack!

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Photo Shyster: Sallee Photography

THIS IS NOT A PHOTOGRAPHER WHO HAS STOLEN IMAGES

TLDR; Is it OK to take people’s money then reschedule workshops to different years (sometimes multiple times) without refunding?

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I don’t even know where to start with this post about Sallee Photography other than knowing NOT to name any child of mine Brinkley.

I’ve been in the industry for about 16 years and for all of them Sallee Photography has always been humming along in the background. JB and DeEtte run Sallee Photography out of Texas and often seem to be running workshops with a few weddings and portrait sessions mingled in.

Sallee Photography is a well-decorated member of the PPA, WPPI and probably a million other organizations that I don’t know. JB especially is (or was) the darling of the Texas PPA which is how I actually found out about him after somehow stumbling into their party at my first WPPI.

JB Sallee, who is the main man running Salle Photography, is also a ProFoto Legend of Light.

DeEtte, tends to run the backend of the business and is generally not at the forefront of a lot of the drama but she *is* still a part of the business and is at many of the workshops.

Sallee Photography workshops have been sponsored by WPPI, Queensberry, Sew Trendy, and LaCie.

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