 What is the author's grievance against photographers?
I’m trying to capture what I think they look like, which is many times a minority of their typical expressions, or their typical stance. Some photographers will make someone look the way the photographer wants them to look, and not the way they appear, so they’ll pick the one picture out of 100 where the guy looks more egotistical than he really is. Some photographers are almost medical, and are going after a perfect portrait. To me, uploading a picture that is not an easily recognizable picture of that person defeats the point, which I’m working toward, to try to express who they are. On the other hand, professional photographers usually have a subject whom they don’t know personally, so they end up having to try to capture an image that they’ve created based on who they think the person is or how they want that person to appear. There’s a paradox: with many people’s Wikipedia articles to which I’ve contributed, when it comes to the picture, many of these people don’t have any free photos of themselves on the web, so while they are “notable” on Wikipedia, their images aren’t free of the copyright of the photographer, or the institution who hired the photographer to take the picture. Often, even the subject of the article can’t make an image available to the Wikimedia/Wikipedia community. This means that a lot of people who have a Net presence have a legally encumbered Net presence. The third part of the pun is that, since I’m asking for a model release from the subjects, I’m asking everyone to be much more open and giving about their image than most people typically are. The fact is, it’s much more likely that somebody is going to use these pictures for something positive, rather than for something negative. In a way, giving up your image and allowing anyone to use it: it’s the ultimate gift. A Wikipedia article on some person but with no picture is sad. They can be used in textbooks and in mainstream media articles about the person. For one, I feel that “free” CC licensed photos have a much higher chance of not disappearing. There’s one more important thing: Creative Commons is great for original creative works or derivative creative works, but when it involves human images, it gets very complicated. What we’re trying to do here is to expand beyond just copyright, to make it more thorough from a legal perspective.
 Photographers are too concerned with bending an image to fit their incomplete or inaccurate perspective of a subject
 Photographers are too concerned with bending an image to fit their incomplete or inaccurate perspective of a subject  Too many photographers are flocking over to digital art, signaling the death knell of darkroom photography  Photographers are more interested in personal financial gain than supporting the vitality of their industry  There are too many photographers competing for the same creative opportunities