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Standards have dropped in the Tampa modeling industry 1. Standards have dropped in the Tampa modeling industryStandards have dropped in the Tampa modeling industry. By C. A. Passinault.
Agency TFP and dumping the modeling portfolio market 2. Agency TFP and dumping the modeling portfolio market
The difference between TFP and professional collaboration 3. The difference between TFP and professional collaboration
Amateurs pretending to be professionals 4. Amateurs pretending to be professionals
Studio training wheels 5. Studio training wheels
Stumbling in the light 6. Stumbling in the light
The aftermath 7. The aftermath

By C. A. Passinault, Director of Tampa Bay Modeling

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Standards have dropped in the Tampa modeling industry

The spreading misconception of TFP / TFCD, why it is a false economy, the unprofessional chaos of portfolio networking sites which enable unqualified amateurs to do what they want to, the possibility of a modeling agency angle on TFP and dumping the portfolio market, amateurs pretending to be qualified professionals, the blind leading the blind, and insecurity, slander, and discrimination in Tampa modeling today.
The low standards of the modeling industry in Tampa Bay, and, as we are in the position to do so, what we’re going to do about it.

In the summer of 2009, I was working on a project in a rural area of the city, and after finishing, I walked into a top Tampa modeling and talent agency and talked to their head booker. He knew who I was, and was an avid reader of Tampa Bay Modeling, Independent Modeling, and my other sites. We discussed modeling and jobs, and I noticed that there were two bookers working in the agency, which was a lot different than in 2005, when there were four times that number. The phone wasn’t ringing nearly as much as I remembered, too; the recession was in full effect.
Of course, the collapse of modeling jobs and advertising, due to the collapse of the rest of the market, wasn’t really the topic. Everyone knew that the market, and the economy, was bad, and it would have been bad form to discuss something that was so depressing.
The topic, of course, was the perception of what “my” independent models were doing.
The booker chuckled. “Obviously, when models go around the agencies to get jobs on their own, book a job, and then work for free, it’s not really a threat to us. Sure, it temporarily robs us of the job, but when they realize that you get what you pay for, and the model isn’t that great, well, they come back. A career of free work is hardly sustainable”. I agreed. The booker then added that they refer new models to photographers who shoot TFP, as there were plenty of them. I didn’t like that. Why were they dumping my market?

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