Photographer of Tenashar says she is lying and reposts her nudies again

So a few months ago, the photographer who took the nudies of DJ Tenashar messaged me and confirmed that the copyright of those nudies belong to him. Ben Heys is pretty pissed that Tenashar is telling lies about him. Glad that he cleared it out by writing this blog post and also to prove that he owns the nudies photos, he posted them on his blog. [Try clicking here too.] 

Click here here here and here for older postings on this story. 

So this is what Ben Heys wrote: 

It all started a few years ago when I worked with a model known as Tenashar, full name Debbie Long, from Singapore. The deal was that I would pay for her international travel, food, accommodation and give her a couple hundred on top for some work involving work up to art nude. At that time I was putting together an art nude gallery site (artofimagery.com) which no longer exists now but at the time Debbie was fully aware of how her photos were to be used, including in that site. She agreed to sign a full commercial model release, which she did in fact sign agreeing to my use of her images, including the nudes for any purposes what so ever.

Now all of this TRUTH is in start contrast to many of the remarks made in this published conversation over on Singapore Hall of Shame: here. I also recently checked my spam folder at facebook and found some messages from a print journalist that had requested my side of the story but when I didn’t respond ran the story IN PRINT with only her lies.

But not content to merely lie about me, and suggest that I sell photos that have been taken under a domestic arrangement suppossedly for her own personal use, she actually went to the extent of making up a completely fabricated “contract” apparently signed by me. Only she didn’t even bother to try to match “my signature” to my real signature, which she had a copy of in the form of her copy of the model release we’d both signed (for real) back around when we did the shoot. The fraudulent document can be seen here: here.

It is true that sometime after publishing the images on my art nude gallery site Tenashar got cold feet and asked me to pull them down, she offered to exchange some money for this and I agreed to an amount that roughly covered what I’d given her and paid for flights etc. But I quite firmly stated that this was merely to remove the shots from that one nude-dominated gallery site and agree not to post them to other such sites, conditions which I have adhered to strictly. I also made it clear that because she was not reimbursing me for absolutely all the costs of the shoot nor my time I would still retain ownership of the images and would still be able to use them for things such as folios, print projects, folio sites, personal blogs & projects etc. In effect the shoot became a tfp shoot with a commercial release and some “gentleman’s agreement” stipulations.

A while back I got a couple odd messages from Tenashar’s email & facebook accounts, accusing me of selling her images to porn sites etc. When I replied (multiple times) that I’d done no such thing & tried to talk to her more about it I just got no reply. But now that I see these stories pop up and find removed images of her’s all over the internet it makes more sense. Put that together with her very recent posing for Playboy and it seems she was aiming to minimise the nudes of her already out there so that she could ask for more money.

Also for those of you who might think I’m a horrible guy for posting these images, they are already out there, many places. So are her lies about me. I’m not putting out photos that aren’t there, I’m just telling the truth of the story.

Now a word to Tenashar when you inevitably read this: As is my custom and as you’ll remember all of these negotiations were done by email, NOT phone for a good reason, as is also my custom I have never deleted a single email exchanged with a model, ever, including you. I have proof sitting on google’s servers that this story happened just the way I said it did and I have your signed model release, that one really IS your signature. I thus have proof of your fraud and your slander.

I’m happy to let sleeping dogs lay as it is. You’ve slandered me but I’ve had my say now, anyone particularly interested in this story should be able to google this page pretty soon and find the truth. If you want to take it any further be my guest, you won’t like where it goes. Like I said I have all the proof I need to back up every word I’ve said.

For those interested these are some of the beautiful images that were taken that trip: click here or here to view the nudies and the full blog post.