Exposed DC

for the love of DC photography

  • Newsletter
  • About
    • Who We Are
    • Contact Us
    • Press
  • Learn
    • Resource Guides
    • Free Classes
    • Get Involved
  • Show
    • View the Winning Images of the 2024 Contest
    • Annual Contest Winners
    • Publications
    • National Landing Fotowalk Exhibitions
  • Donate

Exposed Interview: Paulo Ordoveza of @PicPedant

January 28, 2014 By Meaghan Gay

Photo by Cameron Davidson/Corbis Images used with permission. This photo was posted by @EarthPics without attribution or payment. It was removed from Twitter after @PicPedant posted the name of the photographer.
Photo by Cameron Davidson/Corbis Images, used with permission. This photograph was posted by @EarthPics on Twitter without attribution or payment. It was removed from Twitter after @PicPedant posted the name of the photographer.

If you use Twitter, you have probably seen one of the dozens of feeds that post photos without giving proper credit to the original photographer. Some accounts, like @HistoryInPics and @Earthpix, have millions of followers who retweet and share the uncredited images thousands of times. Those accounts recently sparked debate after the teenagers who manage them were interviewed by Alexis Madrigal for the Atlantic. While not crediting the photographers is bad enough, sometimes these accounts post historical photos with inaccurate captions, bad science, or images that are photoshopped and passed off as unaltered.

But as the number of accounts sharing uncredited photos grows, so does the backlash. A few Twitter accounts are dedicated to exposing the truth about the images. One of them is run by Paulo Ordoveza, a local who posts as @PicPedant. Ordoveza started his account just five days ago, and already has over 1,300 followers. He responds to tweets from the offending accounts, providing the photographer’s name or the correct scientific or historical information. Ordoveza’s work caught our attention, so we asked him a few questions about his uphill battle exposing uncredited or false images.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Exposed Interview Tagged With: copyright, credit, Exposed Interview, Paulo Ordoveza, Photographer's Rights, PicPedant, rights, twitter

How to Get Involved

Latest Posts

  • Friday Links: May 9, 2025
  • Friday Links: May 2, 2025
  • Friday Links: April 25, 2025
  • Friday Links: April 18, 2025

Newsletter

  • Contact Us
  • Newsletter
  • Contribute Your Photos

Copyright © 2025 Exposed DC and Ten Miles Square ยท All images are property and copyright of their respective owners and are used with permisson