The dark side of modelling

Saturday 10 August 2019, 13:13 by Michelle Peeters | 5,595 views | 7 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

Fashion photographer Jessica Kobeissi feels responsible, as a person, YouTuber and photographer with a large platform, for speaking out about the dark side of modelling. What she says is quite harrowing.

The video shows a number of intimidating and/or offensive Instagram Direct Messages or text messages about the intimidation and manipulation of models. Kobeissi demonstrates that it is not unusual for this sort of thing to happen when you work as a model. And it does not only happen to women, male models can be victims just as easily.

With her video, she hopes that justice will be served in relation to this serious problem, which affects both the photography and modelling communities.

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Michelle Peeters is fotografe en oprichter van DeuxBleus Fotografie. Michelle herkent het bijzondere in het gewone en het gewone in het bijzondere. Ze heeft zich nooit willen specialiseren en is daardoor van alle markten thuis.

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7 comments

martinphili wrote on Saturday 10 August 2019 at 21:33 | reply
I just started photographing cars too. Much easier.
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guest wrote on Sunday 11 August 2019 at 08:34 | reply
When I read that something is “pretty shocking”, I already lose interest. What’s wrong with the Dutch language?
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Jan-Karel Kok wrote on Tuesday 13 August 2019 at 16:42 | reply
Thanks for sharing this video. Seems important to me, so I shared it on Facebook too.
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Mabel Amber wrote on Tuesday 13 August 2019 at 16:50 | reply
What an exceptionally endearing video, simple and straight from the heart.

Thank you Michelle for sharing.
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Mabel Amber wrote on Tuesday 13 August 2019 at 16:54 | reply
Guest: I agree with you. Dutch is just okay.
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Michelle Peeters wrote on Tuesday 13 August 2019 at 16:55 | reply
@Mabel and guest: I agreed with it too, I've adjusted it!
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Mabel Amber wrote on Wednesday 14 August 2019 at 19:22 | reply
Absolutely great Michelle
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