Sunday, February 17, 2013

Photographer Clashes with Weddings Unveiled Magazine Over Same-Sex Marriage Ad


This is a brief excerpt from F-Stoppers




At Fstoppers, we do our best to stay away from topics that are strictly political in nature. Generally speaking, it’s not our place. We are a blog for creative professionals, not any number of sites that poke at hot button issues for the sake of sensationalism. However, once in a while, a situation arises that directly affects photographers and their decisions. One such situation occurred when Weddings Unveiled Magazine rejected a photographer’s paid advertisement.

On February 16, wedding photographer Anne Almasy published an article on her personal blog regarding an issue she experienced that hit a serious nerve with her. After shooting weddings for 10 years, she finally decided to take out her first print advertisement in a magazine. Her choice was Weddings Unveiled, a popular magazine based in Georgia with its main distribution all throughout the southern United States. She finished the process of selecting her ad size and talking with the editors, and she was ready to send them her ad, pictured below:


Almasy said she chose the image because “to me, it says love. It says home. It says joy.”

After she submitted the image, the editors of Weddings Unveiled magazine sent her the following reply:

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By: Jaron Schneider


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