Bravo for Shakespeare wrote:
I visited the photographer's website or fb page (can't recall definitely which but it doesn't matter) a few days ago and was struck by how many fund raising projects it featured. That in and of itself is not incriminating, but it does make one wonder. Genuine fund raising for charities, going out of one's way to help those in need when it's hard enough to make our own way in this world without spending our time for activities from which we don't personally profit monetarily, is usually a noble endeavor. But take a look at your local photographers' pages and see the contrast. This smacks of the Go Fund Me lifestyle attempts of Kaiha Bertollini and Jenny Meatballs. The notion that Hewlett was not in on it seems quite implausible.
If he is as guilty as it looks, the wrongfulness of fraudulently raising money for charities while actually seeking personal gain is even further out on the scale of wrongfulness than genuine fund raising is on the noble scale.
Hewlett was 100% in on it, and refuses to answer any messages. He reads them and ignores.
Looking more and more likely it could even have been HIS idea, to get publicity for himself as photographer to a world record holder.