Complaint Review: Brian Patrick Hill

We hired this photographer/musician to do a job with our fashion company shooting several stills.  He promised to have the photographs to me the next day, and only sent one of them. He had been paid in advance for the job.

  I tried to contact him about the rest of the photos multiple times, and each time he didn’t return my communication.  This was very stressful and upsetting.   Finally my business associate was able to get him to communicate, but he blew her off multiple times too and finally demanded that she pay him extra money that he would have been paid after the job before he sent the photos.  She felt very dismissed and upset by the way he treated her.     I unfortunately gave him another chance and offered him an opportunity to have a song in a film I was producing.  He agreed but again, when I tried to communicate with him about the song he stopped communicating with me.  Finally, after I confronted him he told me that he had sent the song to the director of the film, but the director didn’t ever receive the song or any correspondence from him about the the song.  The director warned me to stop working with this photographer/musician.   

I don’t want anyone else to have to suffer the same mistreatment I endured at his hands.  So I am writing this report.  He is dishonest, demanding, manipulative, opportunistic and consistently blows people off, with no regard to what damage or stress that might cause the person he is dealing with.  He is painful to work with and not a good hire.