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11. The photo editor probably thought it was a smudge or dirt

Sun Nov 7, 2021, 08:51 PM

Nov 2021

Any half decent photographer would remove smudges unless they were told it was a scar and to leave in in.

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Chemo Scar Was Edited Out Of Yearbook Photos Without Her Consent [View all] Demovictory9 Nov 2021 OP

Not surprising at all. Drunken Irishman Nov 2021 #1

How Bizzare is that? cinematicdiversions Nov 2021 #2

Not bizarre at all. Drunken Irishman Nov 2021 #3

The Last Yearbook I Was In... ProfessorGAC Nov 2021 #8

What's next? Lawsuit? Sneederbunk Nov 2021 #4

It was a shit thing for the photographer to do when she EXPRESSLY opted Maru Kitteh Nov 2021 #9

The photo editor probably thought it was a smudge or dirt womanofthehills Nov 2021 #11

Oh Jesus. Bullhocky, unless it's a freakin' LANDSCAPE photographer. Maru Kitteh Nov 2021 #13

I'm a professional photographer & sell images thru Getty womanofthehills Nov 2021 #17

Pity the clients whose instructions bore you. Maru Kitteh Nov 2021 #18

I suspect it was the annual staff who did it, not the photographer jmowreader Nov 2021 #14

It looks like the image was possibly reversed as well. Maru Kitteh Nov 2021 #16

Ridiculous that this is even a disseminated story. marybourg Nov 2021 #5

why? The self-image of young women and cancer-survivors is real Maru Kitteh Nov 2021 #10

Explain!!! USALiberal Nov 2021 #12

Every little slight? Every tiny local insult is international news? marybourg Nov 2021 #15

What a very pretty young woman. With or without the scar. ratchiweenie Nov 2021 #7