Jill Greenberg is an idiot #1

Just goes to show you that even a VERY SUCCESSFUL and well known photographer can be an idiot and shoot themselves in the foot.

I'm not posting this for political discussion, this has to do with her being hired for a job and then purposely taking a bad photo to try and further a personal agenda.

I sure hope this comes back to bite her in the A$$ and she doesn't get anymore magazine work, but I'm sure she'll get even more work from it.

Here's a description of what happened: photobusinessforum.blogspot.com/2008/09/jill-greenberg-op...

and here's the original article on PDN: www.pdnpulse.com/2008/09/how-jill-greenb.html

They are both short reads. If you click on the photos you'll see large versions.

What makes it even more disgusting is the photo on her home page. Check this image: www.manipulator.com

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I knew she would take the offending image down eventually since she probably is getting a lot of heat about it.

I'm allowed to give editorial comment or critique (fair use) and use the images to support that critique, so my editorial comment is that what she did was unethical and took one more chip out of the reputation of the photography profession. I would like to think she won't be hired anymore after this, but the sad truth is that it will probably get her more work.

All photographers should think of their own ethics and make a decision as to where they draw the line. I think in this case she jumped over the line by a mile.

The original article regarding the shoot is listed above. She thought it was o.k. to take images from a paid shoot and use them for her own disgusting political use. What this does for all photographers is change how we will be required to do business, i.e. handing over all files to the client and not being able to use them on our own site or for other purposes, in fear of making the client look bad.

The first image is what was on her home page for all of yesterday and last night until it was changed to the 2nd image (in addition to a few other not so flattering images.)

THE USE OF THESE SCREEN CAPTURES ARE FOR EDITORIAL REVIEW AND CRITIQUE ONLY AND ARE BEING USED UNDER THE FAIR USE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.

ALL POLITICAL COMMENTS WILL BE REMOVED. THIS IS A DISCUSSION ABOUT ETHICS IN PHOTOGRAPHY ONLY.