On Track Models aka "The Agency"
Back ground
"The Agency" is the high fashion division of On track Models. I was signed on to both. When I was signed on to OTM the first thing they told us to do was to get a portfolio and send it to them.
Once I did this getting in contact with my agant "Mike Curlee" was next to impossible. Out of about 20 attempts to get in contact with him, I finally did. And he had a job for me!
Handing out clipboards at his next model search!
Which he never ended up having. So here I was stuck with an awesome looking $400.00 portfolio and no work to show for it.
Once the year was over I tried again with another agent but at the same company, hoping that maybe he was just a screw up.
My new agent saw my pictures and immediately turned me over to thier high fashion division, "The Agency".
These people had me travel from Texas to Charlotte N.C. To take another photo shoot because
1. They said my pictures were not "high fashion" enough
2. I had to use their photographer.
I did this as well. Which cost another 400.00, for the shoot and over 200.00 for the travel that was not reimbursed.
Then after I did all of this they said I had to enroll in a model search to remain with the company?
So what I am assuming is that they are not agents, in the sense that they are mediators between a model and an a advertising company, but are mediators between a model and another modeling agency? Go figure.
While you are with them they require that you constantly send in pictures (just about every month) and every 6 months update your portfolio by going to another photo shoot. As I said these photo shoots typically start out at $400.00. I have yet to make $1.00.
It's just not worth it.
I know 3 other people that were signed on with them, and haven't even had a go see.
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