Amyl And The Sniffers Singer Sues Photographer For Promoting Artwork

Amy Taylor, chief of the Australian punk band Amyl And The Sniffers, is suing photographer Jamie Nelson in a California district courtroom, accusing the photographer of “exploitation of her image.” According to the grievance, Nelson did a photograph shoot with Taylor for Vogue Portugal with the understanding that Nelson wouldn’t promote the pictures from that shoot as high-quality artwork prints. Now that Nelson is promoting these photographs, Taylor is suing Nelson for damages, together with “lost profits and damages to her reputation, brand, and business interests.”

The Guardian has a complete report on Amy Taylor’s lawsuit in opposition to Jamie Nelson. Taylor’s lawsuit says that Amyl And The Sniffers supervisor Simone Ubaldi first reached out to Nelson in 2024, asking about taking pictures photographs for an Amyl And The Sniffers report. The shoot was organized, but it surely fell by means of, reportedly as a result of the band “expressly communicated” that they did not need Nelson to make use of these photographs for “non-Band-sanctioned, private commercial purposes,” together with high-quality artwork prints.

Earlier this 12 months, Jamie Nelson allegedly contacted Amy Taylor for one more picture mission, doing a photograph shoot of photographs that have been printed within the July 2025 difficulty of Vogue Portugal. Nelson and Taylor did that picture shoot collectively in Los Angeles, and the pictures have been printed within the journal, however Taylor’s lawyer says that she by no means licensed these photographs for use in some other context. After the journal shoot ran, Nelson allegedly despatched Simone Ubaldi, Amyl And The Sniffers’ supervisor, a collection of pictures that she wished to promote as “fine art prints” and “zines,” however Taylor’s lawyer claims that she rejected these requests.

Despite all these alleged interactions, Jamie Nelson is now promoting a lot of high-quality artwork photographs of Amy Taylor on her website, with the prints priced at $3,600 apiece. (The textual content on the web site claims that the pictures have been “shot within Nelson’s iconic vintage pink palace in Los Angeles” and that Nelson and Taylor are “often mistaken as each others doppelgängers.”) Nelson can also be selling a $69 zine of photographs from that shoot with Amy Taylor, although it is restricted to 225 copies. Taylor’s lawsuit claims that the zine “appears to have been done in retaliation of Ms. Taylor’s demands that [Nelson] stop their unlawful exploitation of Ms. Taylor’s name, image and likeness for [her] commercial interest.”