Luck Changes for Shut-Out VIBE Photographer

Last week we told you about photographer David Anthony's ill-fated shoot for VIBE. To recap: Anthony was photographing 15-year-old skateboarding star Chad Ortiz for VIBE magazine on the same day that VIBE Media Group announced that the entire company was going out of business immediately. Anthony was stuck with the studio bills and no client to pay for the images. What's more, he said he felt so bad for Ortiz and his family that he was considering giving the photos to the skateboarder's agent to use for promotions.

Anthony called us today with an update. Youth marketing agency Fuse approached him with an offer to buy unlimited usage rights to the photographs. They paid five figures — far more than VIBE would have paid for the pictures.

Comments

[Amy Wise-Bacis]

This is great news. As a photographer, I know what it's like when the client doesn't pay. It's heartbreaking and financially painful. Glad there's a silver lining.

[Rick Lewis]

Incredibly good news. It is still hard for me to believe Vibe did that to Anthony.

[Andrea LaBarge Mills]

This is the kind of ending to a story that keeps me going as a photographer.