Complaint Review: Ed Shapiro Of Westmount Photography

I am Ed Shapiro- the subject of the aforementioned complaint.

I did not realize that this report was filed or still on the record. I did indeed become ill within the time frame of the report and was unable to finis several order that were still at my former studio and I was unable to notify all the clients involved.

I did however, make arrangements with other photographers and color labs to recover or and retrieve all negatives and prints and place the in the hands of each client. I assume the person making this complaint has all of her material as of 4 years ago.

In all honesty, the clients concerned did have to absorb more expenses to provide themselves with albums and finished prints which I could or can no longer supply as I was forced into bankruptcy and have not been able to work in wedding photography since.

I am deeply sorry for the way things transpired but at least all otherwise non-retrievable images are in the hands of the clients and not lost.

Four years have past and I am given to understand that all negatives and prints have been received and used.

This is not a rebuttal because the reported events did happen and unfortunately enough, at the time, all of this was beyond my control. A lot of the information, however, ostensibly provided by the janitor in my former building is not actually true. At this point all of this is moot and I am writing to simply respond to a complaint that until I was recently advised of, did not know was still outstanding.

Ed Shapiro

Thank you kindly for all of your suggestions. Indeed, we have been on zuga.net. We find it unlikely that Mr. Shapiro was ill, given the following information we now have collected:

-Mr. Shapiro was seen loading up a moving truck in the last week of July from his studio. Contact with the superintendant of his building informed us that he had skipped town without paying 3 months rent in arears, and that many other customers had come inquiring about their photos and money.

-Mr. Shapiro disconnected his phone, fax, and website and left no mention of a means to get ahold of him.

-Mr. Shapiro has not responded to any of my emails really begging him to honor our memories of our wedding day by returning our proofs, photos and over 3000$.

-Mr. Shapiro photographed our wedding and was in excellent health on that day. He is not an aged man - he was very mobile and good-humored throughout all of the photographing.

If he wants to get ahold of us, he can email me at esther_ehrensaft@yahoo.com and tell me how I can reach him so this upset can be resolved.

Imagine spending the greatest part of your wedding money on what you think is going to lead to creative pictures of the most beautiful day of your life and then being deceived. Anyone who can help us get our photographs back would sincerely appreciated.
Best regards,

According to a post on Zuga photographic forum (www.zuga.net) Mr Ed Shapiro was severely ill in hospital for one month. He is an aged man, and only now could write a msg in the Forum. He sais that he managed to send the photos or at least the negatives to all his customers but two that he could not contact. I am sure that the forum partecipants will be glad to help Ed's customers.

There is a photographer Ed Shapiro on zuga.net ,he gives advice on photography along with a number of other professional photographers, I came across this report because I was recently in a court battle regarding my own wedding photography and I went on zuga.net to have professionals view the unprofessional photographs I had and Mr. Shapiro was one of the responders. This couple can sign on to the site if they register and its free to get on , they may want to know this . I obviously cannot prove this is definatley the same person but I can say there are not to many photographers with the same name, and only one on that site with that name