Photographers Praise Chappell Roan for Crediting Entire Team Behind Shoot
Singer Chappell Roan has been praised by photographers after she gave credit to the whole team that worked on her Interview Magazine shoot.
Singer Chappell Roan has had a rapid rise to fame this year since the release of her album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess — an ascent that has seen seven of her songs currently chart on the Billboard Hot 100.
Last week, Roan appeared in the latest September issue of Interview Magazine for a cover story shot by American photographer Richie Shazam.
Shortly afterward, Roan shared images from the Interview Magazine cover story to her 4.3 million followers on Instagram and photographers were thrilled to see that the singer had listed the credits of the entire team that had worked on the shoot along with Shazam.
In an accompanying caption to the post, Roan gave the names of the 15 people who worked on the shoot from the two photography assistants Lourdes Salazar and Maxwell Menzies to lighting technician Amina Gingold.
The singer also credited Jordan Santisteban who had been responsible for post-production on the images and even mentioned “Gary’s Loft” which was the studio hired for the shoot.
‘Let’s Normalize This!’
Photographers took to the comments of Roan’s Instagram post to praise her for naming everyone in the huge team behind the Interview Magazine shoot and discussed how staff like photography assistants can often be “overlooked” in terms of credit.
“As a photographer, I absolutely love that you list the credits of the team that worked on this,” Stoo Metz writes.
Music photographer Joe Justice also commended Roan for listing all the individuals who worked on the Interview Magazine shoot and asked that this become common practice.
“Let’s normalize this! Giving credit to people that work with you lifts them all,” Justice says.
Artist Sarah Kamai similarly applauded Roan and described how there are so many uncredited people responsible for making a photo shoot happen.
“It makes me sad to see gorgeous celebrity shoots or outfits with no credit,” Kamai says.
“There’s lots of skilled and talented hands working behind the scenes to contribute.”
While shoots can often involve a large team, giving credit to everyone is often a matter of discretion. According to Artnet, in art, authorship often lies with the ideator in the absence of any better system.
However, in recent years, there have been shifting perspectives on authorship and accreditation and some galleries and museums now list the workshop or studio behind an artwork.
Earlier this year, PetaPixel reported on how photographers and videographers can now get credited for their work on short-form videos, such as on TikTok, with a newly-launched “IMDb for Everyone.”
Image credits: Header photo by Jason Martin/ CC by 2.0.
