"international recognition"

Supportive story: A young unknown director is shooting his movie and a well known director unexpectedly appears on the movie set, captures the play with his own camera when the young director turned back and the actors are just rehearsing. Than he submits what he got (crumbs of the real work) and gets Oscar for it. Should young one find it a compliment or an audience stupidity? Either the name of the famous is enough to push anything through regardless of quality or the genious of the young one is immense and even fraction of it wins all the competition.

I would find it a compliment as I can state that my set photographer was one of the nine worlds' best photographers as the newspaper below stated and I didn't even pay him. He valued working with me so much he did it for free. I find it a huge compliment as he submitted hundreds of pictures he took in the area to accomplish his task. And the one chosen as a representative first page picture is my set photography.

But to make it clear: all of it was my own photo shoot and the video documents the entire day’s work. It displays the raw photographs without any editing in chronological order. Take your time to compare the qualities of these photographs and see in the Gallery below, the newspaper pages to get a sense of his style, which is clearly different than the first picture.
The picture you see on the left is what I was aiming for, the final result of the photo shoot: the reconstruction of the settlement.

Moreover, the documentary content of the famous guy’s work, as he claims, is simply false. The picture is part of my story and it is a reconstruction of an archaic Inuit culture with a high dose of fantasy content added. See the scans of the designs I made to create and/or recreate the props at the end of the gallery below. For example: The older girl, who in fact is the second Miss Inuit, has the leather belt around her shoulder, which is meant to hold her bow made of reindeer horns (pure fantasy) for the story I was illustrating at the time. Similarly it refers to some of the other items you see there

Fortunately, or unfortunately as in this case, Greenlandic people don't care much about fame and celebrity names. They were duped into thinking it was my work that was published widely and felt offended. They expressed their disappointment for my being untrue to them. It took me some time to explain and convince them it wasn't me as they considered me one of the worlds' nine best photographers.

You can also see the video of the exhibition that took place in the same area. You may recognize some of the characters and the photographs and you may realise why they thought of me straight away after seeing this picture.

I choose to see it as a compliment for my talent and a proof of audience gullibility and general meaninglessness of fame and recognition. It must be humiliating for him though to go through such an incident after a long career. And for me dismotivating to struggle for any approval, because galleries and medias don't need talent, they need names.

Gallery of some of the pictures from the photo shoot, same set as published in the newspaper, all raw, straight from the camera no editing was applied: