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TFP — Do models need to coordinate with the mother agency? 

TFP — Do models need to coordinate with the mother agency? 

TFP (Time for Print) is a team work of make-up artists, stylists, photographers and models where no one is paid for participating in the shooting, but all participants receive pictures in their own portfolio. The project is certainly useful, given that it often helps models to accumulate or update a book, but here is the question: Do models need to coordinate such a shooting with the mother agency?

 

Julia Temporiti, Velvet Management: I have strict guidelines regarding this. Any shooting of a model is coordinated with the mother agencies. Sometimes photographers are not aware of these rules and write to the models directly. The models reply saying, “I have an agency, please contact them for more details.”
There is a moment though when make-up artists take models to practice their make-up and post the photo result on social networks. I don’t encourage this especially with unprofessional photos taken on a phone. We had a case when a make-up artist posted the photo of a model and marked all the products she used using hashtags. When the model was targeted by a very large cosmetics company, their representatives checked the Internet, saw that she was advertised on a competitor’s brand, and stopped her work. Similarly ugly, unfashionable photos can ruin a career.”

 

Polina Yudina, “Russkiy Blesk”: I am convinced that it is necessary to coordinate TFP with the mother agency. If you trust the model 100% and she always asks the team to register an agency and immediately gives you all the photos, then at least warn her that she will have the shoot.

 

Katerina Mironova, Index Models: Of course, it is mandatory to coordinate. We even have a clause about it in the contract. I remember a story from colleagues when their parents lost a model in their agency late one evening. They called the mother agency who said that she went to the shooting but was not answering the calls. It turned out that the model herself agreed with the photographer about TFP, shooting outside the city. The result was that there were concerns from both parties, claims from parents and the photos for the book were not suitable.

 

Consult with your mother agency about all projects where you are invited directly, whether it is free shooting, contests or screenings. Find out if it is possible as to whether you should take part in them. Models from time to time forget to go to the photographer’s or customer’s page to see if everything is reputable there. One wrong step or one compromising photo is enough to make you ancient history in the modelling world. The agency will always approve the projects which you participate in, having checked everything beforehand.

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