The Rules of a Test Shoot

Unpaid Jobs of the Modelling World

Since I’ve been doing my (really quite unexpectedly full-on) book promotional tour for How Not to be a Supermodel I have realised that there are so many things about the modelling industry - especially the industry in the late nineties, early noughties - that people don’t know about. Practical things; logistical things.

Things like, for example, the fact that there was little-to-no internet upload capability or speed and so sending large image files by email just wasn’t really done. It would have taken about eighty four years to upload a very pixellated image of yourself (so pixellated that your nose would just be three flesh-coloured squares) and sending video was out of the question. How did model agencies get their models’ portfolios to interested clients? Like this.