Working for the Skin-Deep Trade
The dichotomous nature of the modelling industry is brutally exposed by documentarian duo David Redmon and Ashley Sabin in this stark expose of the realities of the business. It’s a bleak and damning indictment of a trade that shatters any glamorous or aspirational illusions that may have still surrounded it, instead revealing it to be as sordid as many might have suspected.
Redmon and Sabin’s focus rests on the unsettling underbelly of the market that exists between Russia and Japan. A casting call in deepest Siberia has incredibly young girls in their hundreds lined up and ushered around like livestock to be inspected, photographed and approved for effective export to the apparently lucrative Japanese market, which has very specific requirements for very fresh faces.
crash/burn 