Happy Birthday, Bill Callahan! - a photo on Flickriver

A funny thing happened to me today in that I was doing a search for the best website links for Bill Callahan, a musician I really love and have loved for about 20 years first when he was with Smog and then solo and I found that quite a few publications are using photos I took of him without asking me or crediting me. Isn't that just wonderful?

Not so much...

Here's the biggest publication, The Guardian, using my photo without credit or asking:

www.theguardian.com/music/2011/mar/31/bill-callahan-apoca...

And here's where that same photo from 2008 appeared on Flickr:

www.flickr.com/photos/kirstiecat/2714024070/in/photolist-...

I mean, I guess that counts as a donation to their website? I do love their reporting and they are one of the only publications left out there reporting the truth and who got me through the dark period of Trump. We need publications like this! But ... it just feels wrong. They didn't even ask or credit me. I realize this is a from a long time ago and likely not the artist's fault but just like any musician wouldn't want someone to take one of their songs without even the basic acknowledgement, photographers should rightfully feel the same way. Certainly a journalist wouldn't want their work plagiarized, either. We're in a time of AI taking over fields of art and I have to wonder if it's because we never actually valued the human identity attached to the art work anyway.

In any case, I don't want all that to take away from a birthday photo for a musician I do dearly love and here's a link to Callahan's music:

billcallahan.bandcamp.com/album/yti-a

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Taken on: July 3, 2011

Sets appears in: • Best of Bill Callahan (of Smog)

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Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/3.2, 1/30 sec, 200mm, ISO 4000 (more info) (hide info)

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Exposure Time:	0.033 sec (1/30)
Focal Length:	200mm
ISO:	4000
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
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Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
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