BAME
I have always (as far back as I can remember) had an interest in tying up girls and bondage photography
One method of implementing the "I am a Bondage Photographer and I would like to photograph you."
This usually triggers "What is that?" and/or "Why me?" responses.
After a protracted conversation during which I would explain money, safety, money, costumes, money, safety, and more about money, they would quite often agree.
I then found that ads in various adult newspapers carried advertisements. Most of them turned out to be not worth photographing, or they were thinly disguised ads for prostitution.
I decided to turn this problem around to my benefit. I started a company called "The Bay Area Models Exchange". I started placing ads in mainstream papers looking for photographers and models of all types. I installed several phone lines to separate calls from models, photographers, magazine publishers, and other agencies. I also had business cards designed and printed for each of the different phone lines.
To facilitate matching models, photographers, and other agencies, I used 5x8" notched cards with information encoded in notches along the edges. Using a knitting needle, I could lift the cards I wish to select from the deck.
- Sortable cards
Models
During an interview with potential models, I would ask what their desires and limits were.
For those interested in adult-type photos, I would place them, but in adult magazines as well. With some of them, I was even able to find work for them in various adult companies.
If they showed an interest in bondage photography, I would introduce them to a small circle of my friends who were also interested in bondage and/or photographers.
Photographer, publishers and agencies
I worked to get referrals in newspapers, magazines, and even a few TV slots for those interested in mainstream modeling. I connected models with photographers, publishers, film producers, etc., by asking what type of model they were looking for and then sorting out per their requests.
One of the people I met during the BAME days was loRRett, who later went on to run 'Fantasy Makers' in El Cerrito. See also [ Hiring Models ]
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