The archive

Naughty Vali is a photo archive from a single event, shot on a 40-megapixel body and developed from RAW by hand. Roughly 250 frames are published each year, at full resolution and without a watermark.

It is not a commercial project. The photographs are taken for the people who were there, and released to them.

How access works

A small, curated selection is public on the homepage. The full archive requires signing in with Telegram, which confirms you are a member of our Telegram group. Membership is re-checked periodically, so leaving the group removes access.

Signing in uses Telegram's official OpenID Connect flow. We never see your password, and we do not request your phone number. What is stored is set out in the privacy notice.

Using the photos

• Personal use is fine — reposting, printing, profile pictures, all of it.
• Please credit when you repost. A link back is plenty.
• Commercial use, resale, and use for training generative models are not permitted without asking first.
• Do not re-upload the full-resolution originals to public galleries. Link here instead, so people who appear in them keep the ability to have them removed.

Having a photo removed

If you appear in a photograph and would rather not, it comes down. No explanation needed and no questions asked. This is your right to object under Art. 21 GDPR, and we will not ask you to justify it.

Message us on Telegram with a link to the photo, or the filename shown in its details panel. You can also write to the address in the Impressum. Removals are usually done within a day.

The same applies to anything you uploaded yourself — you can remove your own submissions at any time.

Contact

Everything reaches us fastest on Telegram. Postal contact details are in the Impressum.