I've found Another tattoo of me.
If my small circle of friends have spotted 2 tattoos of me, I really have to wonder how many there are out there.
I'm getting a bit upset. These are rich, full-colour, well-shaded tattoos. Multi-session tattoos - the kind people pay thousands of dollars for.
So some other artist is getting paid thousands of dollars to reproduce my copyrighted material.
It's not that I have a problem being tattooed on someone....it's that my hard work work is being treated as flash.
I work very hard on my photography, and, while people are paying $2000 or more to have a reproduction of my work, the only profit I have ever seen from this image is about $1 in proceeds from the single print I've ever sold.
I'm happy to have people use my image....But couldn't they do the courtesy of asking permission? Shelling out maybe $25 out of the thousands to actually acknowledge that I created the image and they appreciate it?
It's as if I never existed. This image of me spontaneously erupted from the ether. There is no real person behind it or within it. ....That's not a real human's face.
....Right now, my face is walking around on at least 3 bodies. And that's just the images that my friends have accidentally come across.
If my small circle of friends have spotted 2 tattoos of me, I really have to wonder how many there are out there.
I'm getting a bit upset. These are rich, full-colour, well-shaded tattoos. Multi-session tattoos - the kind people pay thousands of dollars for.
So some other artist is getting paid thousands of dollars to reproduce my copyrighted material.
It's not that I have a problem being tattooed on someone....it's that my hard work work is being treated as flash.
I work very hard on my photography, and, while people are paying $2000 or more to have a reproduction of my work, the only profit I have ever seen from this image is about $1 in proceeds from the single print I've ever sold.
I'm happy to have people use my image....But couldn't they do the courtesy of asking permission? Shelling out maybe $25 out of the thousands to actually acknowledge that I created the image and they appreciate it?
It's as if I never existed. This image of me spontaneously erupted from the ether. There is no real person behind it or within it. ....That's not a real human's face.
....Right now, my face is walking around on at least 3 bodies. And that's just the images that my friends have accidentally come across.
i think i would be entirely creeped out if I saw a tattoo of myself on someone else though. feel free to e-mail me at brooklyn.suicide@gmail.com if you want to talk about it more, etc.