The headshot

© victor m maldonado

While living in Northern California, one of my jobs was to photograph the new talent & interview prospective models for a few agencies I was contracted with in Los Angeles, New York & Milan. This is one of the many prospective models I shot.

To give you an idea at how popular the modeling industry is in Hollywood, when I worked for IT models in Los Angeles it was not unusual for the agency to see 200 prospective models each week during "open call" on Tuesday & Thursday afternoons, hoping to follow in the footsteps of the agency’s top model at the time: Stephanie Seymour

— victor m maldonado