I was new to LA and to the business. I was contacted via OMP and told that I could do "modeling" and get paid $50/hr and up for what they call "Glamour Bash/Seminars". Photographers practice shooting you. They promise that the photos are confidential since they do not have photo releases and they are just for learning.
Well, people post these photos on the internet everywhere to show off their crappy skills. Also they pressure you so hard to pose nude and convince you that they are private and just learning the art of photography sounds harmless and the money goes up.
Until you GOOGLE your name. And if you do sign a release to be submitted to PLAYBOY, Maxim, Stuff or any other magazine they say, you are screwed. They can sell your photos anywhere on the net or in the world and you thought it was just an photography class.
Some guys at these seminars come with disposable cameras and shoot crotch shots and up-skirts even of the teens for their own porn collection or to sell online.
Alan and his company PREY on young girls and people who are new to the business - due to their lack of knowledge, ambition to be models, and need for money.
He also was caught in the studio, made the girls change in front of him, had a window to the dressing room so he could watch and makes NASTY comments to the girls. Girls go in thinking they are just posing for the art of photography and later catch on and feel used, demeaned and betrayed.
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