Rebecca’s story

“I never meant to show [my intimate photos] to the public, they accessed the pictures without my consent. That’s not what I wanted.”

— Rebecca

For ‘private shooting’, when the photographers and the models communicate with each other, the photographers would ask the models, ‘Can you show me your portfolio?’ I usually showed them photos of myself with clothes on, fashion shots or less explicit photos. Then at one time, a photographer got back to me in this way, ‘I had actually seen your leaked [intimate] images and they were very different from the ones you sent me!’ At that moment, I felt like my values were impaired. I never meant to show [my intimate photos] to the public, they accessed the pictures without my consent. That’s not what I wanted.

I remember that a bunch of photos containing the account name of my IG (i.e. Instagram) once leaked out. Within three months after the leakage of the photos, I’d been receiving direct messages on IG from around 4 or 5 users. I tried changing my account name but it didn’t help at all. I was pretty sure, some of the uploaded photos must have contained my personal information… Someone who accessed the photos directly messaged me on IG or Facebook. They said things like, ‘Hey cutie, you’ve been taking [sexy] photos. Do you wanna come out and meet me?