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 | 12 May 2012 10:30 |
| AlLong Model  Location United Kingdom Leicestershire Leicester | As a male model, I find it incredibly difficult to find castings on here, as they're all for 'models', meaning female models. I just don't understand why the site allows male models to make a profile if they seem to have a bias towards female models. I'm not trying to criticise or anything, I just wonder what others think, or why Purestorm seems to only really cater for female models? 
 Quote from AlLongWhy doesn't Purestorm differentiate between male and female models?
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Purestorm does differentiate - Models may specify their gender and the Seach facility can be gender specific. |
| 12 May 2012 10:45 |
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| jetbrown Photographer  Location United Kingdom West Yorkshire Huddersfield | Hi Alex Unfortunately this is a fact of most modelling sites. There are many photographers that prefer to only shoot female models, for their own personal reasons. However there are a lot of us that are more interested in a concept than just "boobs n ass". It just means that as a guy you have to work harder to find the photographers who are happy to work with you. My suggestion would be to come up with some interesting concepts and then create your casting calls, or maybe suggest them to photographers who you can see have previously worked with male models. |
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 | 12 May 2012 10:47 |
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| gerryquiff Photographer  Location United Kingdom Lanarkshire Bonnie Scotland | I don't think it's a bias, it's more to do with supply and demand........There's simply a larger demand for female models. If they only catered for female models, they probably wouldn't activate any male model portfolios. Best info I can give is to make contact with some of the other male models on here and ask for advice specific to males if you can't find it mentioned on the forums |
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| 12 May 2012 10:50 |
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| BrazenDivas Photographer  Location United Kingdom Highland Inverness | Quote from AlLong As a male model, I find it incredibly difficult to find castings on here, as they're all for 'models', meaning female models. I just don't understand why the site allows male models to make a profile if they seem to have a bias towards female models. I'm not trying to criticise or anything, I just wonder what others think, or why Purestorm seems to only really cater for female models? The site not only allows male models to make a profile but also allows people to search for male or female models (or both). The fact is that the overwhelming demand is for female models - clothed or nude |
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13 May 2012 16:20 |
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| Tidal_Kitten Model | He's got a valid point, you know....gender specific casting calls. You can't do a casting call search for a gender specific model. But as pointed out, the site (and internet "industry") as a whole tends to have a bias so is only an issue every now and then. |
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| 13 May 2012 16:56 |
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| Gerry99111 Photographer  Location United Kingdom Surrey Guildford | Quote from AlLong As a male model, I find it incredibly difficult to find castings on here, as they're all for 'models', meaning female models. . You maybe need to find some other way of finding photographers - not everyone who is active uses the casting system and I would hazard a guess that anyone looking for something more specific where there is likley to be only a few candidates, will use direct mail rather than the casting system, I find the casting system a very blunt instrument and have only used it once and wished I had stuck to direct mail on that occasion. I find the favorites function quite useful as I list models I would like to work with in the future, so its a great shortlisting function. It can be used by models for photographers - in your case, probably those whos work you admire, seem to shoot male models and are local to you. Maybe a direct approach [written specifically] is the way to go |
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| 13 May 2012 23:07 |
| photo_phil Photographer  Location United Kingdom Oxfordshire Wallingford | I'll happily shoot male models if they are close enough, affordable and work to nude (same goes for most female models). My problem is that there aren't many male models and those there are rarely post casting or meet the criteria. |
 | 14 May 2012 02:04 |
| JoelHicks Model  Location United Kingdom Leicestershire | I think a casting specific option would be a useful tool, and it is used on other portfolio hosting sites, but other than that, those commenting above are quite right - the demand for male models is simply not as large as that for female models on the freelance market. With that said, there are plenty of photographers who will quite happily work with males on a TF basis on this site. |
 | 14 May 2012 02:48 |
| WebModerator Location United Kingdom West Sussex Brighton |
As neither the Casting Calls nor Search facilities were originally designed to be gender-specific
it would take a fair bit of recoding to now incorporate this minority* request. We have, however, flagged the issue for the attention of the Webmaster. *Although about 1 in 8 successful registrations are from aspiring Male Models only around 1 in 30 Premium Model members are male. This is possibly quite an accurate representation of the gender imbalance in modelling as a whole. |
| 14 May 2012 04:28 |
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| Buddygb Photographer  Location United Kingdom London Kent & South East | There is a gender imbalance here but from my experience it is more pronounced because people are predominantly shooting glamour or nude. The last time I put up a casting call for a male model (clothed fashion) on this site I got one solitary response. Over on MM, 2 of my next 7 currently booked shoots are with male models and I have another awaiting confirmation. |
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