What inappropriate requests do you have for your models?
Well, the experiments we do go further and further. We start of with a acceptable idea, but can get so overwhelmed by the result, we push the limit. For example, we did a test with paint balls. We trew them at our model and in the end found out, not just the fabric she was covered up in was purple, but also her hair. It took weeks for her hair to get blonde again. And sometimes the fixing on to the body can be pretty painful. We are willing to accept that our selves, but can not live with the idea we do this to other people.
And what happens if the body covering is finalised?
We then find the best position for the model to show the material in te most perfect way. Sometimes it takes over fifty shots before we are satisfied with the pose. We make the pictures ourselves. The one that’s not the model for that day, it the photographer and vise versa. It’s easy to recognise your work. How can you explain this? It probably has something to do with several factors. Hopefully every picture we make reflects the fun we had doing it. Sometimes we are two little school girl giggling together for hours, simple because we can’t stop. We’re always on the same wavelength and keep inspiring each other to go a bit further. Besides that all our pictures are more or lees similar. It’s always one person (either Lucy or Bart), covered in a weird material, striking an unusual pose in front of a nutrual background. And that’s it, nothing more. There’s no other material involved.