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Model Mayhem #:
1591518
Last Activity:
Mar 13, 2024
Experience:
Experienced
Compensation:
Depends on Assignment
Joined:
Mar 04, 2010

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About Me

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ROTTEN THIEVES
Just a quick update and notification to all, the studio has suffered two break ins in the last week one to the prop store and one to the main studio. The last, to the main studio has made the roof so badly damaged that it is not worth fixing.

Due to the action of a few burglaries and the inability of the met police even to be able to do much other than catch a cold (the industrial estate has suffered a spate of burglaries over the last two weeks at least 8 to my knowledge) I have decided to shut the studio until new premises can be found and a studio built this effectively means no studio work for at least 3 to 4 months I would think.

So any shoots will be location only.

Sorry for anyone who has booked a studio shoot with me but I can't be bothered supply lighting to every burglar in Romford

Thank you for looking at my profile.

In addition to my web pages my most up to date work can be found on face book, link below
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/marcus.vanlyden/photos

I returned to the industry having started out in the newspaper industry and then left to do other things, but photography is a passion with me and draws me back all the time.

I want to devote much of my time to the photography of Dark skinned /Asian/ Black models, not exclusively but predominately.

I enjoy location shoots as well as studio work, the funky side of model looks are my favourite, I'm always up for the adventure, enjoy travel and anything new. I am willing to travel and the more challenging the shoot the more fun.
I believe the most important part of a shoot is the fun and interaction between camera and model.

I have my own studio in Romford Essex with good facilities.

Time for Prints etc

I really enjoy working with newer or less experienced people, MUA, hair stylist designers models in fact the whole team. The main reason being that they bring something special with them, they are un-jaded and very hard working as a rule. That is not to say I won't work with experienced people often they bring knowledge and ideas that develop me, never a bad thing.

However I rarely ask models to do time for prints (I believe very strongly that models should be paid for their time no matter how new, perhaps not the huge fees paid to top models but I know of no other industry that blatantly abuses a workers role as this industry) and I will do time for prints myself if it would bring something to my portfolio.

So if you have an idea other than just trying to update a standard portfolio feel free to contact me. The better the idea the better the chance I will accept TFP.

If you are going to do a TFP shoot with me for your idea you must provide a MUA. They are perhaps the most important person on the set after the model without whom few shoots reach their full potential. A good MUA is worth his/her weight in gold!

Glamour and Nudes

I rarely photograph glamour, or nude not because I am a prude it is simply my passion is for beauty portrait work.


Under 18 year olds

Alas I never work with under 18 year olds mainly because I always pay my models they then become employees and that unlocks a whole raft of troubles with CRB etc and that sort of thing. Sorry but I really cannot be bothered with the potential aggravation. I guess that is what happens when you let the red tops set the political agenda.


Friends Lists

Please, please don't add me as a friend unless we have had some sort of contact be it via e-mail or on a shoot or we actually know each other I don't collect random names of people I nether know or an not likely to be working with.

Shoots and ideas

If you have any ideas you want to explore or ideas for a shoot feel free to contact me. The more details I have then the more chance I will take on the project. Especially if it is going to be a fun shoot the more unusual the better.

Marcus

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