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Yes... most photographers like me, connect with models via their websites.
The fact is 90% of the women I work with are not professional models - they've have never modelled before! This works best for me... the honesty, naivity, naturalness.
Some professional & semi-professional models can fall into stereotypical & poses, though the good professional models go beynd this. How can we do new images with old attitudes & set poses?
Some women say to me... "but the women you work with are so beautiful, i'm not that beautiful " well indeed, the are beautiful. Beautiful people, beautiful spirits... but they are mostly the women we meet everyday, normal women... not physically perfect, not 100% happy with themselves... just normal women. You know these photographs are about real women.
Many of the models I work with find out about my photographs and approach me via this website.
I work on a Time-For-Prints (TFP) basis. That means models don't receive money, but get contact sheets & prints.. and of course my thanks & goodwill (well, how could I do these photos without the models?!)... Why? I'm a creative photographer.. not a commercial photographer, I don't have mega bucks to pay models. Secondly: Its important for me to work with models who not just to doing photos to make money... but are in it for the right reasons: to create, explore, be involved in making great images!
So, if you really like the photographs you see and think you have what it takes to help create some great images, please contact me. Look forward to hearing from you soon.
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