Heritage department paying for foreign photos to promote Canadian culture
The Department of Canadian Heritage is using stock photographs purchased from artists in Russia, Poland, Denmark and the U.S. to decorate web pages about programs intended to promote Canada’s cultural industries.
A search of images appearing on the department’s site turned up numerous examples of pictures purchased online, without any apparent regard for using work created by Canadian photographers or artists.
The department’s web page promoting its assistance for the Canadian film and video industry, for example, shows a group of young people in a movie theatre, wearing 3-D glasses and eating popcorn. This picture is a stock image by Denis Raev, a Russian photographer based in Moscow.
Another page promoting the Canadian Music Fund, which provides assistance to recording artists, features a picture of a crowd at a rock concert taken by Olaf Herschbach, a German photographer specializing in concert and nightclub photography.
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