HOUSTON - Photographer Lithium Picnic, aka Philip Warner, said the lawsuit filed against him by SG Services Inc. (Suicide Girls) has been settled.
"We all sat down together and worked out an agreement that is really fair to everyone," he wrote Sunday on his journal site. "We are especially relieved that we can now send people back to SuicideGirls.com to see all of our early work together without feeling dirty."
The dispute reportedly centered around Warner's collaborator and wife, model Apnea, having posed for pictures with a model named Katie for a website site that was in the works but never launched. Also reportedly at issue was Apnea's site, which, according to an AltPorn.net interview with the model, contained images that SG Services said constituted a breach of contract.
Though representatives for Suicide Girls and Warner were not immediately available for comment, Warner posted the open letter on his journal site and other photography forums.
"We're really glad to end all the bad blood between us so we can all start concentrating on creating great art instead of fighting over it" Warner wrote. "Thanks to everyone that helped and supported, I think we've all learned from this experience and hope never to have to go through anything like it again.
"We want to make it clear that we 100 percent have no hostilities towards Suicide Girls in any way anymore, we all came to a really fair agreement over this dispute, and there were no bad people here, just mistakes and misunderstandings."
Terms of the settlement were not posted on Warner's site and were not immediately available.
