Q&A Photo Stealers
Earlier this year, possibly one of the bigger scandals in professional photography in Australia occurred when prominent photographer Lisa Saad was stripped of dozens of photographic awards and banned from a number of photographic organisations and associations around the world for blatantly and repeatedly breaking competition rules. Based on a tip-off, and following an investigation, the story first broke on the Photo Stealers blog. When Balazowich initially posted information, reporting that Saad had won numerous awards with work taken from a Dutch photographer, she soon realised that the transgression was just the tip of the iceberg.
How long have you been doing this, and what motivated you to start?
My first post on the Photo Stealers blog was in May of 2012. I was an early adopter of Twitter and my ‘Photo Stealing’ busting started out on that platform around 2010. Someone posted about a photographer who had stolen a bunch of photos for a Groupon ad and I helped find the original
