Career Suicide Girls?

Once again, in her excellent blog Feminism without Clothes, our friend Candy has a new entry that may be of interest to some readers of this blog. She writes that the folks over at Suicide Girls have taken to re-selling "retired" photo sets to at least one other website operation, but that this other operation is clearly marketing itself in a way that I think most SG models would not appreciate. I haven't verified if these are actual SG sets on this site, or if it's one of the many SG knockoff sites, but either way, Candy raises some interesting issues. Check it out.

I've shot a couple sets for submission to SG, and I know they require a total buyout of the images, but I don't believe they indicated that they were planning to sell images to other adult site operators. I know several models who would never do "adult content" work, but would do an SG set, simply because the site presents itself as a sort of "grrl power" community, and not just another "pr0n" site. If this is true and it gets around, I wonder if SG won't be hurting their long-term image for some short money.

By the way, here's Candy from our set last November, simulating something that may be a suicide attempt in the literal sense, or may just be a lost weekend. It's open to your interpretation, too.

Postscript: There's a pretty involved discussion thread at Model Mayhem that addresses this. There is a statement from at least one model that states SG is selling shots to "adult" sites without offering further compensation to models, let alone photographers. Sounds pretty nasty...