Justin B.

I discovered one of my photographs being used on the Fixthephoto.com website to illustrate an article on the "Best 30 Landscape Photographers to inspire in 2021." The picture is attributed to my former employer, Galen Rowell, though I made it a full year after Galen's death. They have not responded to my communications regarding the matter at all, particularly my demand that the image be taken down or its use paid for. In the meantime, I am aware of at least one other photographer whose photo was used without permission and misattributed to another photographer in the very same article. Though the company seems to indicate it is based in Brooklyn, New York, the website is registered in Ukraine. I think there is not much about Fixthephoto.com that is legitimate. Stay away.

[UPDATE: They finally took down my photo and replaced it with another one of Galen's that was also unlicensed and therefore used illegally. I have since determined that several other photographers on the list – Michael Kenna, Carr Clifton, Erin Babnik, Sean Bagshaw, Michael Frye, Isabella Tabacchi, and Fay Goodwin, at least – had also not granted permission for the use of their pictures on the site. I suspect that none of the photographers on the list actually granted permission for the use.]