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Photographer

Rp-photo

Posts: 42711

Houston, Texas, US

How about new models with empty portfolios that say they won't do TFP?

Jun 25 05 10:13 pm Link

Model

12082

Posts: 1292

Los Angeles, California, US

The evolution of one model's portfolio on nudity:

1. No nudes.
But as an artist, I took courses on nude paintings, drawings, art history is full of nude images... I appreciate the human form. And so, I worked with artists, not photographers, nude. And I still do. So...

2. No explicit nudity. AKA Implied nude.
Granted, the artists were nude. But implied nude is common in fashion and commercial images - even as innocent as Johnson Johsnon or body soap.
But implied nude involves being fully nude. I had a photographer who had been in the business 25 years bring me down to his basement studio, alone - wouldn't let anyone down there including his wife or my escort, and yell at me to take my clothes off. We're going to shoot nudes. "Oh no we're not". So yeah, I'm picky about who I get naked in front of. I like to work with photographers with my clothes on before I ever consider working with them with my clothes off - it's a trust issue. I had another photographer pitch photos of me - my head someone else's body - as porn online. Tits and porn aren't part of the deal, so I like to know that during and after the shoot, the images are what they should be.
Some people think that means topless shots are ok. Dude, if there are levels of titty bars and this is included, that's  not the type of work I do. Ask one of the strippers. So...

3. No explicit, adult or porn. Implied nudes with photographers previously worked for or artists (painting, sketches, sculpture, etc.)
And frankly that just seemed to create more confusion. It's as if a model can only have "nudes" or "no nudes" on their portfolio.
I had a designer tell me they couldn't work with me bc my port said that and their clothes were a little sheer or suggestive.
So, I'm trying this...

4. No adult.
But I do pin up and fetish. Do I consider that adult? No. I consider it 1950s vintage with my clothes on. I consider it pictures of just my feet.

So in short, I have no problem working nude, I ran naked as a child and still do in the privacy of home or in the solitude of nature.

But I don't want my parents to know how things have developed since birth.

Jun 25 05 10:45 pm Link