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A recent Facebook posting alerted me to this Flickr page, where in 2004 a woman named Lyza Danger uploaded a photograph (shown above) of a local supermarket (a Fred Meyer in Portland).

After posting to Flickr, Danger opened up the image rights to Creative Commons, leading to widespread circulation. The image has been copied and reused many times online, sometimes with permission and sometimes without, often in articles about overconsumption and the food industry. Since 2004 it has received 94,000 page views and hundreds of comments.

In PDN's March issue, the magazine highlighted Cade Martin’s impressive ad work that he had done recently for Tazo Tea and Starbucks. As the main feature, it's only natural that one of those images ended up on the cover of the issue (pictured above). Not everyone, however, was as thrilled by Martin's work as PDN.

Photographer Rodney Smith has covertly spoken out about the cover on his blog. In a post titled "The Real Thing," he calls the image an imitation, and wonders why PDN would choose to applaud work that is, as he puts it, "by it’s [sic] very nature ‘second-rate.'"

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