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I’ve had several photos rejected because of the  Model Releases of people with no last name.

My family is from Indonesia and many if not most people there don’t have last names.

Even my wife’s US Immigration visa used her first name as her last name. For the first name they put FNU.
I called her FNU for a while, (first name unknown).

Shutterstock, Dreamtime, Veer will not accept the model release of people who signed a release with only one name.
I asked shutterstock Customer Service and they just said don't resubmit the photo with the same MR.

Fotolia, canstock, Alamy, BS, 123, Snapixel don't seem to care about not having both a first and last name.


Any ideas?

I really didn't want to lie, but if some of these editor's can not understand that some people just don't have last names, What else can I do?


I just have another photo rejected for not having a models phone number on a release. The model in the photo is a poor villager in a remote part of Indonesia.

That person doesn't even have electricity or running water.


Do you guys just fill in the blanks spaces on the releases to satisfy the editors   

Or call everything and everyone Eric (for the Monty Python Fans)

What's funny is my Indonesian friends not only have both names, but some have their Chinese Names, and their America names as well. That would be quite a collection of names to choose from. Daliana is Chen and also Jean.

So lets see, no models with one name? Where do I start? Twiggy? Iman? Fabio? Verushka?

Living most of the time in Northern Mindanao, I can witness this kind of situations. They are quite normal in the rural areas, and those people don't walk around like savages in tribal outfit at all.

"No running water" means nothing. This is the tropics and it rains all the time. It's easy to catch and store it. Everybody has "nannies", unemployed girls that do all the washing by hand, the cooking, the cleaning and fetching water at a totally clean mountain stream (many of those!) for 30$ a month (if you feed them too).

Telephone? Landlines are scarce and only in the cities. Who needs them with all the area covered by cellphone antennas? If they don't have a cellphone themselves, their mom or dad has one, a cousin in the extended family that lives in the group or the barangay captain has one. That cellphone is shared in the group.

No electricity? Well even in my suburban gated compound, we have rotating brownouts of 6hrs per day. The money for the maintenance of the hydroelectric power stations ended up in the pockets of some politicians. I heard things like that are standard practice in Indonesia too. I run on a home generator then which is a PITA since the fuel costs me as much as a month's rent. When in Rome, do as the Romans.

Street names and house numbers? Hahaha. Everybody knows were everybody lives so why would you need that? Poverty? They live better and more relaxed than many people in the West, having to rush around to get by.

The dad of my models is the mayor of one of these rural places. Everybody can find him and he gets his snail mail but he has no street name nor house number. iStock accepted the release without problems, you just have to mention it clearly. Of course, I attached a photo with her holding the completed release and her school ID next to her head.

Hello Friends!

3 times the model release for minor was rejected by Fotolia.

My images were not accepted because not proper models release.

I'm really confused how to create the model release in order to pass their editor control. Can you give me an example of model release for Fotolia, please?

Please see attachment.

Thank you in advance,

George

Thank you very much disorderly! I guess I'm getting old not to notice that the date and address are missing.

Thanks again!