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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · Attention, all sports photographers. What do y'all think? | |
BillyHurst wrote:
Luke,
I applaud you for following through with this. Unfortunately, there's probably one of these lil fools in every major city across the country doing the same thing. Please keep us posted as to what Instagram does, if anything.
Billy-
I've done my research on this the past several months, this is a whole new Instagram cult. I saw a fellow photographers repurposed image of an athlete and looked at the page. Actually there are literally hundreds of these so called "Graffix Artists" on Instagram that repurpose photographers images into posterlike images for money. Do a search on instagram for the word graffix and you will see.
Look at THOROLGRAFFIX 80,000 followers and he edits photographers images and sells them. Its actually part owned by Kevin Serapin the NBA basketball player.
Look at COLLEGEFBGFX he has 32,000 followers and he edits photographers images of top college players and then sells them for $7.50
Look at SPORTSPOSTERS has 50,000 followers and he edits photographers images and sells them
Look at PARAMOUNTGRAFFIX has 40,000 followers and he edits photographers images and sells them
Heres the deal, Ive actually spoken to several before. They are 15-17 year old kids who work in photoshop, they go online and steal the image remove watermark and edits them. Then they try to sell you a personal edit of you or your child.
the best part is .... wait for it ....
They all put their watermark on the image near the persons head so other instagram graffix designers cant "STEAL" their work. Comical
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