I was very happy to buy a copy of Desktop magazine today and see two of my photos of my workshop planning process and sketchnotes nice & big in an article on the UX Australia conference by Neil Simpson.
I was however less than happy to not get any credit for the photos. Considering they’re about half of the two-page spread, you’d think I’d get at least my name (and maybe a URL) in there somewhere, wouldn’t you?
Hey Desktop, how about a free life-time subscription and we call it even?
Update: I’ve exchanged some mail with Neil, and he’s explained that he did the right thing and passed along my name with the images. The missing credit appears to be an oversight of the magazine, and not any kind of wrongdoing on Neil’s part.
Update again: just to be absolutely crystal clear, what happened is Neil, the author of the article, asked me if he could use my photos and promised me a credit if they got printed. I agreed and sent him the hi-res files. He passed the files and my details along to the magazine, and the editor screwed up. Neil and I have been in touch and there’s no hard feelings at all; in fact we’re talking about future possibilities of doing something similar together.
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That’s very poor form - they should have contacted you before using them to ask if you minded them being used, and to confirm the credits that should be attributed to the photos.
Okay, I wrote too quickly and didn’t explain exactly what happened. It’s not *quite* that bad, Nina. See the update above.
That’s very cool getting your photos in Desktop. Congrats Matt!
What??? Isn’t there your name? That’s simply ridiculous. You are the author of the photos and your name should appear in the article! Don’t you think so??
So that’s a happy ending! It happened to a friend of mine, kind of the similar story, except the guy didnt ask for anything, took the picts and edited them. Rough!
Time for a new posting, whats up
I always enjoyed your blog..
Hell yes, Nils is right - what’s up with this blog?