Shutterfly, a Billion-Dollar Company, Just Refused to Pay for This Photographer's Photos
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#NoBudgetNoPhotos is going viral after a photographer, Nafa Ribeiro, revealed damning emails from a Shutterfly executive trying to use her photography for free.
In the emails, you can see Ribeiro quoting Shutterfly $150 per photo, a seemingly low sum for a billion-dollar corporation.
You can also see that employee responding that they had absolutely no budget for photos for the project, and so they said they would take Judah Avenue Photography off of the project.
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Ribeiro then replies that it is "highly unethical" to exploit photographers by trying to pay them in "exposure."
She suggested the employee take the issue to her board to convince them to stop the practice.
After these photos went viral, the photography community the world 'round could be heard voicing their disbelief and disdain for the practice.
It's hardly the first time a photographer was asked to work for free, but the fact that the company clearly has the $150 asked of them and just doesn't want to pay makes the unjustice feel worse.