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Jo Ann Snover:
The portfolio:
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/sentongo?sort=popular

This is the image of mine he has uploaded as his own

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/stunning-picturesque-sunrise-down-by-merrymeeting-1119292577

This is my image in my Adobe Stock portfolio

https://stock.adobe.com/images/mist-rises-from-merrymeeting-lake-as-seen-from-the-beach-by-the-marina-boat-launch-new-durham-new-hampshire-right-after-sunrise-on-a-summer-morning/133258605

The same guy has a portfolio on iStock with many of the same images, but not that image of mine.

https://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/Sentongo?mediatype=photography

You might want to check his portfolios to see if any of your images are there - it's a very odd portfolio with lots of places around the world represented, but only one image of each location.

I have written to Shutterstock compliance to tell them to remove the image and send me an accounting of how many licenses they've sold and how much I am owed (it's marked as "Commonly Used"; it really irks that they would get to keep any money buyers had paid to license this image).

compliance (at) shutterstock (dot) com is where you can write if any of your images are  there.

I noticed two images that are just a flipped version of another Shutterstock image (the image numbers make it clear who's stolen and who's the author):

Originals
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/river-thames-bridge-st-johns-lock-520443904
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/sun-rising-over-river-thames-on-520443892

Stolen, flipped image from Sentongo
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/mystic-early-morning-by-river-thames-1113930485
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/fabulous-twilight-before-dawn-down-by-1111015958

He's done the same flips in his iStock portfolio

Originals
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/river-thames-bridge-at-first-light-gm625232702-110044607
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/sunrise-over-the-river-thames-gm625231978-110043977

Stolen
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/a-mystic-early-morning-gm977643968-265797618
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/first-light-gm973801836-264951212

It's pretty sad that neither iStock nor Shutterstock detected someone uploading a flipped version of something already on their site.

marthamarks:
Quite the world traveler, isn't he?   :-\

Geez. I hope SS puts a stop to this thievery right now, because otherwise nobody's best images will be safe anywhere.

vectorsforall:
As they did for me, they will probably in the best case delete the duplicate files that you listed and let the portfolio online as if nothing happened  >:(

Brasilnut:
Updated list:

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/judexxx
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/mageo
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Lourens+Myburgh
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Kiro+Nakamuro
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/kadiralpargu
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/iiamtoey
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/DigitalArt98
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Marcia+Alvarez+Martin
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Rehman+Khoso
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Gasnier+Chris
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/lrasonja
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/PARVEEN9634
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Narendra853301
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Ayush+tripathi+740
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Mr.+Picker
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Vaneet+Singhal
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/ChMuhammadAwaisKhaliq
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/MuhammadAamerZaheer
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Wazid+Khan+123
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/BazykaMale
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Farooq+Muhammad
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Super+Firoz
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/sentongo?sort=popular

For Real:
yet when anyone presses SS they seem to attack the victim and take care of the criminal!

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