How to get into modelling - By: Brooke Pens

Modelling is one of those jobs everyone wants. The glamour, fashion, travel opportunities… It has what so many people want. At higher levels, the money is incredible and the prestige enormous. Competition at all levels is fierce, and while there are certainly possibilities for unknown newcomers with fresh looks to break into it, nobody can honestly tell you it is going to be easy.

The traditional way of getting a career started was to build a portfolio of photographs, which is always best done professionally, and then take that portfolio to as many agencies as possible, trying to persuade one of them to take you on. Any reputable modelling agency will receive hundreds of portfolios, emails, CVs, and even unsolicited visits every month. The sheer quantity of applicants means that the overwhelming majority are going to walk away disappointed, even if they have invested a lot of time and money amassing a portfolio of top quality professional photos.

Modelling agencies exist for the company that needs a model, not for the models themselves. In relation to demand for the services of a professional model, supply is massively over stocked with hopefuls looking for work. The agencies exist to serve the customer who wants a model, because those are the ones that pay and make profits for them, and it’s much harder to find them than it is to find a first time model. They are not, commercially speaking, interested in your well being.

There is another way that avoids the crowds emailing pictures to modelling firms. UK Modelling is a different kind of agency, and its profit comes from people wanting to break into the modelling agency- people like you. Those are the ones it wants to help succeed. It doesn’t supply models to advertising companies. Instead, it takes your portfolio (which it can help create) and is paid to help get them into modelling agencies and hence to a position in professional modelling.

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