view of the world that can be held. It’s
the people that think what I do is immoral and needs to be stopped.
I have been shooting professionally
for 11 years now and for more than
a decade, our company has dealt
with harassment. Some of it came
from one other local photographer
but while the rumours that this person
created were insulting, they made no
sense and therefore, never stuck. This
individual moved on to Plan B and
started flagging every photo that was
ever posted of my work. This included
anything that was posted on my or
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Brianna’s Facebook accounts. And
when we found a way to block them,
they started to recruit other photographers to do the same by taking them
out to lunch. The local photographer
would explain that my work was immoral, exploitative and needed to be
stopped; that it was giving the industry
a bad name. And it worked because
soon I found myself opening my fourth
Instagram account. With every new
Instagram account, I would always
post the same message: “We’re just
going to come back every time!” And
it’s true.
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Nothing is going to stop me from
trying to get our message out there.
With publications like this one, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan,
and others picking up my work, I am
being helped to spread my message. One person’s delusion about
my work being evil makes them look
like just that, delusional.
I HAve lost track of
how many times I
have been told that
I ’ m going to hell. But
let me tell you that I
hope the devil is ready
for me, because I’d be
coming with no regrets
and no apologies.