Similar To The The Recent Vanity Fair topless Pic 'Scandal'

[Miaow]

Just noticed this on the news website today - Looks maybe like this magazine also are in a bit of trouble for a topless photo shoot with minors. Can't believe they did a shoot like this with 16yo's you would think they would know better (though from what it says they have done it before with the same model)

Ok so the agent says if she'd know it was going to be topless then the model wouldnt have done the shoot - but then again what was to stop the model herself saying no to doing it?

Outcry over topless 16-year-old model
Jonathon Moran and Catherine Caines
May 11, 2008 12:00am

AN Australian magazine is being investigated after photographing a 16-year-old girl topless in two fashion shoots.

Russh Australia, a lifestyle and fashion magazine, hired Zippora Seven for a provocative 18-page editorial fashion spread alongside 16-year-old male model Levi Clarke.

Shot in March, one of the images depicts the pair sharing a bubble bath nude with Seven topless and Clarke's eyes closed as if he is passed out.

In the foreground are four bottles of champagne.

The Classifications Act prohibits the depiction of nudity and sexual activity of minors under 18.

A spokesperson for the Australian Classification Board said: "I can advise that the board has contacted the publisher of Russh Australia."

Seven's Australian agent, Priscilla Leighton-Clark, said the photo shoot had gone too far.

"It's wrong that our girl has appeared in a magazine exposing her breasts when she's so young," Ms Leighton-Clark said.

Russh editor Natalie Shukur defended the Seven shoot, which was inspired by supermodel Kate Moss and actor Johnny Depp when they dated.

"We believe Russh readers 'get it' in this narrative story," she said.

"These are beautiful images of two young people in character."

Russh is marketed towards fashion-minded 18 to 35-year-olds with almost equal readership of males and females.

In a brief interview with Seven, the magazine asked, "When and where was your first kiss?"

"My first lick was in the bubble bath with Levi," she answered.

Seven lives in Auckland, New Zealand, but is in demand in Australia and has been shot locally for Vogue and Oyster magazines.

It was her second shoot with Russh this year. She appeared in the March issue topless while riding a horse.

In NZ, Seven is represented by Red11 agency and her mother, Ursula, is heavily involved in her career.

In Australia, she is represented by Priscilla's Model Management, an agency that has a long-standing reputation for being extremely protective of its models.

"I can't be on every shoot," Ms Leighton-Clark said. "Had I known it was to be a topless shoot, (Seven) would never have done it."
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23679178-662,00.html

 

[Battou]

I saw the vanity fair photos....this is nothing comperable

Totally different situation

 

[Miaow]

Yes I spose is different from that in a lot of ways - I probably should have titled it differently.

 

[deudeu]

There are some things that just crack me up.

So it is okay for this girl to drop out of school to be a model, to hang around a crowd that promotes and even glorifies the use of narcotics and anorexia, to wear highly provocative clothing or lingerie while on podiums or at photoshoots, to enter a completely superficial world while she is just a teenager and is supposed to be figuring out who she is, BUT if she shows a nipple it becomes "a scandal".

I'll tell you one thing I know, it's a messed up world we are living in!

 

[spiffybeth]

can someone post a link to the pictures?

 

[Iron Flatline]

LINK?!?!?!

My god, do I have to google everything myself??

 

[Rick Waldroup]

LINK?!?!?!

My god, do I have to google everything myself??

Yes, you do, Iron.

You know that you always provide excellent links for all of us. :hail:

 

[Iron Flatline]

Careful, American viewers. There's boob visible!!!!

NOT SAFE FOR WORK

Link to one of the images (the questionable one!)

I'm still looking for the rest of the series.

... for research, and so I can be outraged! I promise!

We can all then be outraged together!!!!

EDIT: after some online research, it turns out all women have breasts. Also, many of them are pictured on the internet. Also, many seem to be friends with Joe Francis.

My research continues!

 

[Miaow]

Thanks for finding a link Iron Flatline - Originally when I posted this I couldnt find a link for any of the pics.

Its still on the news heaps here cause of her age. They were going on about the photographer yesterday also - something about that he's done this sort of thing a few times with another magazine he was with also.

 

[Iron Flatline]

Here's a link to the blog with thumbnails that are linked (respectively) to the remaining images. I find them innocuous, a little clichéed, if anything.

 

[spiffybeth]

thanks for the link, iron flatline.

do you have any luck finding the image described here

Shot in March, one of the images depicts the pair sharing a bubble bath nude with Seven topless and Clarke's eyes closed as if he is passed out.

 

[deudeu]

I haven't seen anything that would have made good old continental europe raise an eyebrow.

How prude Britain and its old colonies can be has always been incredible to me.

 

[Rhys]

Doesn't raise my eyebrows any. Personally my taste in women is older but that's just me.

 

[Battou]

I'm dissappointed....actually

 

[craig]

Models are not in the business to say no.

It is not like having sex. They are just photos and it was just a photo shoot. Maybe we need to let our guard down and try to understand that not all (probably very few) photographers are pervs. Not all photos showing a womens' "bumps" are porn. These scandals are a burden on the already tarnished name of photography and photographers. Do not believe the hype and do not add to the hysteria.

Love & Bass