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‹ Photo Notes · 16 října, 2012
I’d like to be photographed like that too. And actually maybe I’ll be a model, I have no problem with nudity, my breasts are beautiful and natural, let them stare on Facebook and at school. I’ll tell you a true story…
I usually don’t give models‘ names or nicknames with the photos. I do it to protect privacy. I give a name only for models who wish it. Either it’s about their ego, or they make a living from modelling and it’s then advertising for them. Whether to publish a name or not is a fundamental decision, and it’s necessary to realize that publishing a model’s name is irreversible. Even if it were published for only one day, there is no certainty it won’t remain forever. Judge for yourselves…
Some time ago I photographed a foreign model who makes a living from modelling full time. I asked her whether I should publish her name. She wanted it, and I did so. After a few weeks she searched for her name on Google and found links to our joint photographs. They were no longer only on my website, but re-blogged to various places. She wrote to me to delete all links with her name from Google. I tried to explain to her that I would do so on my website, but that Google is not my website and I can’t delete anything from it. For a long time she couldn’t understand, but when she saw that I had really deleted her name from all pages I had access to, she calmed down.
After many months she sent me another link and asked me to delete the name here as well, saying that we had agreed on this long ago. The link led to the blog of some Jordanian. He had a contact, so I asked him to change the text. I explained to the model again that I couldn’t do more, that it wasn’t my website.
The paradox is that the model has her full name on her website and on Facebook, and of course my photos are there too, but about female logic we’ll write some other time…
When you decide to be a model for nudes or other daring photographs
- always reckon with the fact that your photos will or may be published
- the internet has no borders, nobody can guarantee you that ‚nobody in the Czech Republic will see it‚
- your schoolmates and work colleagues have the internet too
- think over whether you will show your face and whether you want to give your name or be tagged on Facebook and the like
- agree with the photographer on the limits you don’t want to cross
- always, or at least for really more sensitive photographs, agree on approving individual shots and their edits – e.g. subsequent brightening can reveal previously invisible parts
Clarify these things in advance and state them clearly or confirm them in writing with the photographer. You will save both of you needless trouble…
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