Property News · December 18, 2017

Would-be models duped by ‘platforms’ promising easy route to fashion world


Firms promise the ticket to a modelling career with a test photoshoot – but the only thing they bring with them is a hefty billAminata Mendes* has dreams of a modelling career to support her struggling family. An invitation to a photoshoot by a company describing itself as the UK’s largest studio group promised to be the breakthrough. “My family and I are recent immigrants from west Africa and they told me that my modelling potential could help support my family financially,’” says the 18-year-old student, who has lived in Flintshire in Wales since arriving from Guinea-Bissau last year.The company, The Studio Collective, duly took a series of photographs which Mendes says she was given to believe was a test shoot. It then demanded £2,500 for 30 digital images, a photographic business card and a basic website. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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