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This time, we organised a photoshoot event in Le Mans, home of one of the photographers who were working with us at that moment. Instead of inviting models and photographers to our place, we wanted to go out and look for other opportunities. We arrived the 16th of May late in the afternoon. We tried to contact the local french models who registered with us via bookfoto.com, the low grade french equivalent of Model Mayhem (french people don't understand a single word of english). Only one of the 15 models that we contacted (in french, of course) took the time to answer us. He was a professional model and was invited for a stay in Belgium for an shooting session for a belgian agency. We work with both amateur and professional models, but we decided to postpone the shooting with him to a later date. The difference of style between the french models and him was too excessive and it would have been be an awfull experience, both for him and for us. |
Le Mans, May 16-20
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Vivoin | |
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But they eat all day long and didn't leave anything for the belgiam models (even specially-bought yogurt for one of the belgian models who needed a special sort of diet) But paying their due? No way!
The belgian photographers of BMA decide not to process the pictures untill the money is present on the account. There is areally strange atmosphere full of distrust and i don't like it. The french people sit at the table, not deciding anything. The belgiam models and photographers do a shooting in the attic, and three hours later, the french are still sitting at the table, having decided nothing.
One of the last shootings was in Saint-Léonard-des-Bois. It begins to rain and we go back. Again, the french go sitting at the table, not deciding anything (they have to leave this evening). The meal purchases are still in the trunk of the car, i'm waiting for the french to leave.
One of the key ingredients of the Shooting Days is the going out on the last day of the shootings. It's great to make fun the last day and the models can sleep in the car while we are driving back to Belgium. But none of us has any motivation to bring the models to a nearby disco. The belgians (models and photographers) were really pissed of by the french.
We do a last fotoshoot in the house and wait for the owner to pick up the keys. The models and photographers are discussing: this was the last time we worked with this french photographer. He was not able to find decent models. He was not able to organise his fare of the shootings, relying on the settings of other photographers. He was not able to mend his models. He was not able to collect the dues of the french models (and didn't pay his due). And at last, he was not able to decide when to leave.
On the way back we made a stop at the Baie de la Somme (Le Crotoy) to look for shooting locations. It's a nice place, but the location is some 200km of our normal locations in the Pas-de-Calais.
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