Hasta La Creative!

Le photographe canadien Joey L a réalisé une série de clichés en noir & blanc appelée Halloween in Brooklyn. Des portraits d’enfants déguisés d’une grande sensibilité, qui nous permettent de découvrir les new-yorkais sous un autre angle. Des clichés à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.

Une nouvelle fois partenaire du magazine Fricote, nous vous présentons « Statues d’Auto-Entrepreneurs », une série produite avec l’aide de Leblox pour la réalisation d’impressions 3D de chefs, et leurs plats signatures. Une direction artistique signée par William Roden et Richard Banroques de WAF Agency.

Pierre Hermé – L’Ispahan

Paul Bocuse – La Soupe aux Truffes noires « V.G.E. »

Michel Bras – Le Capucin

Alain Ducasse – Cookpot de légumes

Jean-François Piège – Le Blanc-Manger

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Cette série photographique est à découvrir dans le nouveau Fricote Magazine n°14 dont la couverture a été réalisée par le talentueux duo Zim&Zou. Retrouvez aussi dans ce numéro sur le thème « ConforTable » un article « Comfy At Home » signé par l’équipe de Fubiz. Magazine disponible depuis le 13 février.

Les photographes russes et téméraires Vitaly Raskalov et Vadim Makhorov ont un jour décidé de visiter en toute simplicité un des plus hauts bâtiments du monde : la tour Shanghai, encore en construction. Des images et une vidéo qui vous donneront le vertige, dont le tout est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.

UPDATE: We've received responses from both Survival Magazine (which is online only had says it has no print edition) and the photographer. You can read their statements at the bottom of this post.

Original item below:

How should you respond if a photographer says you're using her photo without permission? Probably not by calling her an asshole.

Kathy Shea Mormino, proprietor of the popular backyard chicken site The Chicken Chick, says that's what happened to her when she tried to get one of her photos removed from Survival Magazine's Facebook page and blog.

On her own business' Facebook page, Mormino shared a screenshot of an email she received from the magazine with the subject line "You're an asshole Kathy." The note also called her "a complete and total jerk" and threatened to come after her for up to $10,000 in legal fees. The magazine's email called her action a "false take down" and noted "we will be contacting all your sponsors."

Here's how Mormino (whose LinkedIn bio says she's also an attorney) described the situation to her 133,000 Facebook fans:

A fan alerted me yesterday that someone removed my watermark from my photo & used it without permission on their blog and Facebook page, so I sent them an email AND FB message requesting that they remove it. They ignored me & deleted my FB request, so I reported the copyright infringement to the Internet Police who took it down for them. THIS is the email I just received from Survival Magazine. What on earth is WRONG with some people?! Please feel free to let them know what you think of that.

Her supporters say they posted several incensed comments on the magazine's Facebook page, only to have all the comments removed. The page currently does not allow any "posts by others" and seems to be removing comments about the issue when they're posted to the magazine's other Facebook activity.

We reached out to both Mormino and Survival Magazine early today for comment and will update if we hear back.

UPDATE: Survival Magazine tells Adweek that Mormino never contacted them about the photo but instead complained to Facebook. One of its contributors sent the email to Mormino, the magazine claims, "not in response to any contact from her but in response to her complaining to facebook about several of our posts that had nothing to do with her chickens or her content. She was doing malicious stuff. She filed take down notices on about 10 of our posts that custom content created by us and had nothing to do with her."

The magazine also claims that the watermark was never removed from the photo, and that the photo was removed "immediately" after the magazine was notified of Mormino's Facebook post, not because she contacted the magazine.

Survival also confirms it shut down its Facebook page because of the ordeal.

UPDATE 2: Mormino reached out to Adweek late Friday to provide the following screenshots and comment. She denies Survival Magazine's portrayal of events, saying she only filed a take-down notice with Facebook for her photo and no other content. 

To disprove the site's claims that "she never ever notified us, not once," Mormino provided the following screenshot of her original Facebook comment notifying them of her copyright:

Mormino also sent Adweek copies of the original email she received from Survival Magazine calling her an asshole. Here is the complete text:

For someone who raises chickens you're a complete and total jerk, you have cost us hundreds of dollars in promotions of our posts, and we will be sueing you to recoup that and legal fees which are estimated to be between 5-10k. What an asshole with nothing better to do than go around the web filing false take down notices. We will also be contacting all of your sponsors.

In addition, Mormino sent us Facebook's confirmation notice for the removal of the chicken photo, which she says it's the only content she filed a take-down request for.

After the jump, you can read Mormino's full statement:

The screenshot images in the photo collage speak for themselves. One can plainly see that I contacted Survival Magazine directly by commenting underneath my photo on their Facebook page at 2:00 pm on 2/12/14.  I identified myself as the owner of the copyrighted photo and requested that they remove it from their page. Survival Magazine deleted my comment, ignoring my respectful, polite request. I filed a copyright infringement complaint with Facebook and Facebook removed the photo from Survival Magazine's FB page at 5:40pm. For Survival Magazine to claim that they took the photo down themselves, implying that their moral compass pointed in the right direction at any point in the course of these interactions, is patently false.

At 5:50pm on 2/12/14, an unidentified agent from Survival Magazine emailed me the profane response to Facebook's take-down notice seen in the photo collage above. No person at Survival Magazine has ever identified themselves as the author of that email or as the author of the reply to the Adweek article, which calls into question more than just their professionalism. For some anonymous entity at Survival Magazine to claim that I filed a "false take down notice" is sheer insanity. There is no dispute that the photo is of my chickens and my chicken coops in my backyard or that I took it and watermarked it. Further, there is no dispute that Survival Magazine used my photo on Facebook and their website without my permission.

Finally, in response to the claim that I filed "take down notices on about 10 of our posts that custom content created {sic} by us and had nothing to do with her" I categorically deny that baseless claim.

I challenge Survival Magazine to produce an iota of evidence in support of the accusation that I filed more than one Facebook copyright complaint. Facebook provides notices to the complainant and offender when removing content from a page; those notices contain the complainant's name and contact information as well as a section that requires the complainant demonstrate ownership of the challenged content. I filed one and only one complaint against Survival Magazine's Facebook page. Any accusation to the contrary is 100% fabricated. Whether my photo ever contained a watermark and whether Survival Magazine ever removed a watermark from my photo is completely irrelevant to the issue of unauthorized use of my intellectual property.

Last, this is a very clear instance of theft of intellectual property by Survival Magazine. I would have excused the unauthorized use of my photo. Their bad behavior ex post facto, however, is completely inexcusable. 

Basée à Londres, la photographe Jo Metson Scott nous propose avec sa série And Then de réinventer la forêt, et d’en faire un terrain de jeu, à l’image des cabanes d’enfants. Des clichés d’une grande sensibilité, jouant avec talent sur les formes et les éléments pour nous dévoiler un monde feutré et surréaliste.

Hengki Koentjoro, spécialisé dans l’art de la photographie en noir et blanc dont nous avons déjà parlé sur Fubiz, réalise cette série d’images entièrement dédiée aux paysages. L’artiste retranscrit son émotion et la puissance de la nature par l’utilisation du contraste noir / blanc. Plus de détails dans la suite.

Francisco Reina retranscrit dans ces différentes photographies des forêts de contes de fées habitées par des animaux et des êtres qui font leur chemin dans notre imaginaire. L’absence est devenu une masse noire dont la représentation est une silhouette humaine ou animale. Une série photographique qui ne laisse pas indifférente.

L’artiste italienne Haari Tesla fait le lien entre l’infiniment petit et l’infiniment grand en confrontant deux univers qui se ressemblent quand on les observe : celui des micro-organismes et de l’espace. Le rendu donne l’impression de voir des nébuleuses, supernovas et galaxies. Une plongée astrale à découvrir.

Dans sa série « Cosmic Surgery », la photographe anglaise Alma Haser crée de nouvelles dimensions cosmiques aux visages de ses modèles. La retouche qu’elle fait donne un effet 3D et une construction d’origami kaléidoscopique, soutenant qu’un être possède plusieurs faces dans lesquelles on peut se perdre.