Update: This person’s profile has since been removed from MM. Good riddance.

“Stunned Photography” on Model Mayhem (#1953820) stunned myself and a few others today when we found out that she’s been using our photos in her portfolio! Apparently my photo has been in her profile since November of 2010. Not only was she too lazy to take her own photographs, but she didn’t even bother to remove my logo. Granted, I’m glad she didn’t, but… wow.

After being called on it by several people, including myself, she logged in and removed the photos. I will keep an eye on this profile in the future, and may even contact MM to log her I.P. in case she tries to create a new profile and do the same thing to someone else.

To Stunned Photography, should you happen to read this,

Not only are your actions illegal, but they are detrimental to the photography industry. It’s hard enough to get work as a model photographer, but when you are misrepresenting yourself to clients and models alike, you are damaging what little respect we do get. One brush with a shady photographer can be enough for some to turn away from us as a whole, or force restrictions upon us because of their previous experience. I can only hope that you learn a lesson from this, though I doubt it. If you had any portion of a brain you wouldn’t have pulled this stunt in the first place.

That is all.