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Julie Paisley Photography / Julie Paisley Education

THIS PHOTOGRAPHER HAS NOT STOLEN PHOTOS!

Yes, this is who I was talking about yesterday on the Substack.

Julie Paisley is a film photographer who has been around for quite a while and is well known within the film community. She’s part owner of Hybrid Co., has lead a shootout at WPPI, she leads workshops (she calls them retreats), she sells a ton of shit (online courses, notebooks, cards, vintage books, layflat mats…), and is an author (memoir and a never-actually printed Paris guide). I’m sure there’s things I’ve missed.

Over the weekend someone that booked a photography + mentoring session with her posted in a Facebook Group asking for advice. They’d booked with a prominent photographer and after asking other photographers for advice it was discovered there were a lot of people experiencing a similar issue with this photographer. So they posted to the group and it kind of exploded from there. It was brought to me and I wasn’t sure what I’d do with it at first since she is allegedly battling some health issues.

I posted the story to Substack without naming names and decided that the decision would make itself known to me. As the day progressed I got more and more stories and it became overwhelmingly obvious this isn’t just a couple people having an issue. Then one person turned the tides and I decided to go for it.

There’s a multitude of issues at hand here but overwhelmingly it’s people not getting what they paid for and often not getting refunds.

I have a feeling this is just the tip of the iceberg here. I kind of feel more like I’m on Ocean Gate instead of the Titanic at this point. All I need is a Logitech controller…

The easiest way for me to tell this is via timeline I think. I don’t know. Fuck. Continue beyond the jump and I apologize in advance for the chaos.

Updated 10/9/2024 : Added more stories, added more updates, added more WTF below. It was going to be in the newsletter like it was last week but hot damn, there’s just too much.

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Well Kept Design in Summerville, SC and Lancaster, PA and Pigeon Forge, TN and more

Website: https://wellkeptdesign.mypixieset.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wellkeptdesign/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wellkeptdesign/?hl=en
Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/well-kept-design-summerville

I cannot tell you how many times Well Kept Design has been sent in to me over the years. It never fails that something always happens when I’m swamped with weddings and I can’t get a post up.

I finally have a tiny smidgen of downtime and the thieves I was working on seem to have taken down their images so I thought it was about time I posted about Amber.

Much like her partner, Whitney (YES), Amber’s history isn’t focused just on stolen photos (although they have been part of the story) but more about her repeated backing out of sessions, not delivering sessions and not refunding when she doesn’t deliver or ghosts the client.

So grab the beverage of your choice, get comfy and your scrolling finger ready.

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AmPhotography in Knoxville, TN

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100086142794688

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Why is it all of these fauxtographers I’m outing lately all have “pay what you can” pricing?

Anyway – more of the mini session madness.

Update 5/11/2023 – AMPhotography / Angel Murphy swiped another photographer’s entire portfolio it seems and used that to apply for a second shooting position. Images at the bottom of the original post.

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Salt of the Earth Photography aka Bethany Stapleton Photography in Church Hill, Tennessee

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SOTEphotography/

All Events: https://allevents.in/org/bethany-stapleton-photography/12803926

’tis the season… not for Christmas you fools but for mini sessions!  Which means that I’m dealing with submissions left and right of fauxtographers who are advertising their minis with images that aren’t their own.  Some state the images are “inspiration” and some do not but either way it’s still copyright infringement.  STOP IT.

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