Did This Man Steal Your Wedding Photos?

Victims of a local wedding-photography scam can now easily search for their names on a county website after officials recovered hundreds of CDs customers paid for but never received.

Jack Holton, who operated photography businesses in Cinnaminson and Palmyra under the name "Renaissance Photography," served in prison for fraud after not delivering on contracted wedding photographs. Holton business shot wedding photos in several counties across South Jersey and Pennsylvania. 

“Hundreds of CDs and negatives are here waiting for their owners,” said Burlington County Freeholder Mary Ann O’Brien in a recent release. “Many of the CDs are not labeled or marked properly, so it is difficult to locate the proper customers. ”

All of the information marked on the CDs have been entered into a file that past customers can review. So far, only about 50 individuals have recovered their CDs, officials said.

Most of the CDs have a date and many of them have a single name or two names, said O'Brien. The list also shows what items were recovered—discs, tapes, negatives and/or enlargements.

People can search by visiting the Burlington County Office of Consumer Affairs' website and clicking on "Photo List" on the right side of the page. There are 23 pages of names with approximately 34 names per page. The earliest date goes back to 1997.

Between 2002 and 2009, consumer affairs received more than 80 phone calls accusing Holton of non-delivery of wedding photos and albums and non-performance of contracted services.

Each theft ranged in the amount of $800 to $6,600, said officials, and victims came from several counties across New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Anyone who had entered into a photography agreement with Jack Holton and who never received their photographs, should contact the Office of Consumer Affairs at 609-265-5054.