One-time model getting wet
Added 2024-07-11 12:45:39 +0000 UTCA little secret I have never talked about:
(This is not about this model, but generally why I was putting shower sessions at the beginning!)
During the 25 years in which I offered nude photos to female clients in my studio in Basel, Switzerland, I have seen things that I'd have preferred not to have seen. Not all people are very well-groomed and clean, not even if they intend to strip naked in front of a photographer. And this applies across all social classes, almost more so to women from higher income brackets in expensive clothes...
Well, I don't want to go into it in detail, but the fact is that I was downright traumatized in this respect. Even today, I never watch a woman undress (except for girls I already know well).
In my early years in Spain, I therefore attached a stupid pdf to my answer to model applications, in which I pointed out, among other things, that she should please set the date for the test shoot on a day when she doesn't have her period and that I expect her to be healthy and freshly showered for the appointment.
It is logical that 99% of all applicants felt offended by such instructions about things they took for granted, and the one % that would have been affected still didn't care...
And that's why, in my first years in Barcelona, I almost always chose the shower as the location for the first session. It was like a tic.
I don't know whether girls in Spain are generally better groomed, more appetizing and cleaner than women in Switzerland, or whether it's because they come as models and not as women who pay me and therefore believe they don't have to be considerate.
In any case, I have long since successfully overcome the trauma - even if it took a few years - and my first thoughts when I imagine a girl undressing for me are much more pleasurable today than they were 10 or 15 years ago.
That's why I no longer send them to the shower first :-)
