Amyl and The Sniffers’ Singer Launches Lawsuit Against Photographer

Amy Taylor, the fearless frontwoman of Amyl and The Sniffers, has filed a lawsuit towards an award-winning American photographer who she claims bought pictures from {a magazine} shoot with out permission.

In papers filed with a California district court docket, Taylor’s reps accuse Jamie Nelson of unauthorized business exploitation of photographs initially snapped for Vogue Portugal.

The pictures, a part of the so-called “Champagne Problems” sequence, have been printed in July 2025, and have been shared broadly on social media. However, prints stay on the market by Nelson’s web site, with costs starting from $1,500 as much as $3,600, decreased from $4,000.

The sequence is a “visual dialogue between two kindred spirits,” reads Nelson’s web page, each “fiercely embodying defiance, glamour, and authenticity.”

The shoot passed off at Nelson’s “iconic vintage pink palace in Los Angeles,” and captures Taylor’s take-no-prisoner’s punk spirit, and depraved sense of Aussie humor.

According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the court docket paperwork embody a portion of a letter despatched by the band’s supervisor Simone Ubaldi, co-director of Sundowner Artists, to Nelson, addressing the commercialization of these pictures.

“I cannot be clearer about this — [Ms Taylor] does not want you to sell images of her face, or her body as fine art prints,” the letter reads.

“If you had been clear together with her upfront of the shoot about your want/intentions to promote the pictures, she would have stated no to the shoot.

“We simply would have said no to the shoot.”

Billboard reached out to Taylor and Nelson’s respective reps for remark.

Nelson’s images has appeared in lots of celebrated publications, together with Vogue, Playboy, and Vanity Fair, and he or she has labored with a protracted record of recording artists, together with Halsey, Camila Cabello, Gwen Stefani, Megan Thee Stallion, and Maren Morris.

Amyl and The Sniffers are arguably Australia’s hottest rock band proper now. The rockers are coming off a barnstorming 12 months, throughout which they performed Glastonbury Festival, earned a BRIT Award nomination, cleaned up on the ARIA Awards with 4 wins, and scored a first-ever nomination for the 2026 Grammy Awards, in the perfect rock efficiency class for “U Should Not Be Doing That.”

Taylor took her personal leap into digital music with “you’re a star,” a collaboration with Fred Again, and the group opened for AC/DC on the legendary Australian rock band’s stadium tour of Australia. Amyl’s look was an early “bogan Christmas” current to followers of AC/DC, “the best band in the f—ing world,” Taylor stated on the tour finale, Dec. 18 at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium.