Legal Brief: Two Photographers Go to Court Over Papaya-Themed Artwork
Two photographers are facing off in a copyright-infringement lawsuit involving clever images of fruit, leaving courts to peel back the layers of truth. Fine-art photographer Christopher Boffoli, whose "Big Appetites" series features tiny, lifelike figurines staged on actual food, has sued photographer Laurie McCormick for selling two photographs on Amazon that allegedly copied from his own, one depicting nine miniature bicyclists riding down the side of a bunch of bananas and the other featuring two golfers putting on the surface of a papaya. A court dismissed the charge regarding the banana-themed photo but ruled that a claim of copyright infringement could move forward in the case of the papaya shots.
The DART Board: 05.27.2026
May 26-July 2: What Now | 2026 Across Philadelphia Opening this week, ArtPhilly "What Now: 2026" is a five-week citywide festival that bypasses colonial nostalgia to pose an urgent civic riddle: A lot has changed since 1776, so... what now? What follows is not white cube retrospective, but a vibrant, democratic display of a city wrestling with its own layers of history, identity, and erasure. Above: Jai Perez in rehearsal for in case of fire, spea...
