“I don’t even know how to explain the amount of anger I’m feeling right now.” With this strong statement, the British model Sian Green-Lord wanted to denounce the use of his image in the campaign of the Ministry of Equality ‘Summer is also ours’.
The reason: that on the poster they have edited his image erasing his prosthetic legwhich she herself has been claiming on her social networks as an act of normalization, to place a natural leg on her and, in addition, add armpit hair.
A campaign led by Women’s Institute, which since it came to light has not ceased to be involved in controversy. First for him use of images without permission of some of the models that appear in it and, on the other hand, by the use of fonts without paying the authors Of the same.
Body positive..@GovernmentEquality ..
It’s incredible ????
– Rocio ??? (@Rocio_Arias_) July 29, 2022
Sian Green-Lord explained in a message on Instagram that she was told by a friend of the use of her image without her permission for a body positivity campaign of the Government of Spainin which, in addition, they have edited his orthopedic leg.
“I don’t even know where to start, nor how to explain it and how it really makes me feel”, the ‘influencer’ has commented, annoyed, who has not hesitated to point out that the use of her image in the campaign of the Ministry of Equality “is more than wrong”.
I open thread??
First of all, I would like to publicly apologize to the models for having inspired me in their photographs for the campaign “Summer is also ours” and for having used an unlicensed font (thinking it was free.)
– ArteMapache (@ArteMapacheArt) July 28, 2022
The illustrator of the campaign apologizes
For its part, the illustrator responsible for making the campaign poster publicly apologized through a Twitter thread just after the first complaints were made.
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Raccoon Art explained that she has felt “embarrassed” by all the mistakes made and that she hopes mitigate the damage caused by distributing all the benefits arising from their work between all affected parties.
Even so, the illustrator wanted to emphasize that, in no case, did she want to take advantage of these models. “My intention was never to abuse her image, but to convey in my illustration the inspiration that women like Nyome Nicholas, Raissa Galvão represent for me… Her work and her image must be respected. Thank you for your work, even in this case “, he wanted to remark.