When photographer Mat Hayward listed an idyllic photograph of his family to stock photo sites, he didn’t expect it to make its way onto the frontpage of Ku Klux Klan’s website. Despite being used as KKK’s website banner since 2011, Hayward’s family portrait, which is Photoshopped in front of an American flag alongside messaging such as ”The White Alternative,” was only made known to him on Wednesday when New York Daily News sent over a screenshot.
“Oh yeah, that’s my family. . . Awesome,” he sarcastically tells the paper.
The Adobe photographer relations specialist had intended his Happy Family image to appeal towards a variety of topics including; happiness, family, children, bond, commitment, and togetherness.
Unfortunately, the misappropriated image might be more famous for endorsing a political ideology among those visiting the KKK website over the past five years. “They’re blatantly racist; they’re a racist organisation,” says Hayward, “It does not match how I feel . . . It’s against everything I believe in. ”
The banner has since been replaced after Adobe’s Fotolia stock service requested its removal from the site. A company representative told New York Daily News, “The use of this image by the organisation in question is a violation of the Adobe Stock/Fotolia terms of use. ”
Only a few days ago, a woman in Harlem filed a lawsuit against a photographer for listing her portrait on a stock photography site without prior consent.
. digitalrev.com2016-11-5 03:00