UPDATE July 2023: At this point it's probably clear that I've been more-or-less retired since 2020. I may come out of the woodwork on rare occasions for the joy of creating with friends or for serendipitous assignments--maybe even a tour motivated by nostalgia--but as of now I'm focused on school and other pursuits. My decade of professional modeling was a dense, surreal thrill of change and adventure, and I want to thank everyone who's played a positive part in it: those who've hired me, created magic with me, rooted for me, made me laugh, or shown me kindness.

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As a model: A decade of professional experience [modeling in the US + territories, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Cuba, South Africa, and around Southeast Asia and Europe], glowing references, technical knowledge and creative intuition on both sides of the camera, exceptional athleticism, all-natural features and grooming [my shoots often involve no makeup and my skin is infamously simple to retouch].

As a traveler/roustabout/life-liver: scroll to the bottom of this profile. 8]

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UPCOMING TRAVEL

UPDATE March 2020: In light of COVID-19 I have cancelled my Spring '20 tour and all upcoming travel plans until further notice.

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READ THIS BEFORE WRITING ME:

1. Listed locations = where I'm going next [i.e., where I'm currently booking work for]...NOT where I live. I usually have no home base. Inquire directly for details.

2. Interested in working with me? If you include your location in the subject line, it'll make my life a lot easier [and suggest to me that you might've read this] and score you instant points. [Making the subject line "photo shoot" or "hi freya" or "job offer" or something else ambiguous will have the opposite effect.]

3. Paid inquiries only. I'm fortunate to be able to make a living through creative expression and travel. While I'm genuinely eager to participate in your art, I also need to be compensated for that participation.

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On Catching this Will-'o-the-Wisp

This has happened to me in at least two hundred cases: someone will send me a good-natured when-are-you-coming-to-my-town type of message.

And when I follow up inquiring about what dates would work for them [or sharing dates that might work for me], the response is, "Let me know when you're coming!"

And then the same interaction will repeat itself, with the same person, for years, ad infinitum.

And most of the time, in these cases, I never wind up making it over there.

When I *do*, it's a matter of luck: someone else books me there, or I wind up going there anyway for other personal or professional reasons.

Why's that?

A couple reasons:
A. I structure tour dates around jobs that are *definite* [i.e., where I won't run the risk of receiving a last-minute cancellation, and where there's an actual date-time-place in my calendar]. If I'm specifically traveling somewhere *because of* modeling [as opposed to modeling in a place where I happen to be traveling for other reasons], it's because I've been booked for a concrete, in-the-calendar, surefire gig.
B. I'm juggling a lot of plates. While modeling is my mainstay [and has been for eight years], I do work in many fields and pursue many independent projects and the development of different skills.

It's completely fine to just say, "Add me to your contacts and let me know if you head over here," and I've worked with hundreds of people this way, but please be aware that in these instances I can make no guarantees about if or when I make it to you, nor how much notice I'll be able to give or if I'll be able to save availability for you. That is completely, 100% fine, and I really appreciate when people contact me asking to be added to my contacts list.

But if you've continued to ask for three or four [or more] years of repeatedly asking me when I might be coming to visit...it might just be time to commit to a date, already, to get me headed your way once and for all.

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Compensation

Rates and policies vary somewhat by country [striking a balance balance between exchange rates to USD and the local cost of living], but are fairly consistent overall.

FYI: In the US, my rates start at $150/hour with a two-hour minimum for standard one-on-one shoots, encompassing any content up to art/glamour nude.

When traveling abroad, this rate may differ very slightly in either direction but will be, in the majority of cases, of comparable value.

Deposits

I almost always require deposits in order to secure a booking. This deposit is nonrefundable, except in the unlikely event that I have to cancel.

Usually I ask for 50% up front and the other 50% at the shoot, though I can be flexible if there's something else that works better for you.

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Fun stuff [i.e., you don't have to read this, but it's here for those interested]

—In an unexpected turn of events, I am currently an engineering student.
—I rock climb, scuba dive, am a general mover and shaker and incidental athlete [certified ski instructor and yoga teacher...but my true love is martial arts, particularly northern longfist shaolin kungfu and muay thai].  I can limbo like a boss. In Spring 2015, I rode my bicycle from Key West, FL to Bar Harbor, ME—and modeled in big cities along the way!
—I've worked as a Thai massage therapist at an upscale spa, a ski instructor, a research assistant at NASA, a freelance writer and editor, a trail builder for the National Parks, a stable hand in Utah, driving heavy machinery in North Dakota, remodeling houses, and so on.
—In a former life I built large-scale projects and the like for Burning Man: in 2012 I was with the Pier and worked as a golf cart mechanic for DPW, in 2013 I built the pyrotechnics for the Control Tower [did all the plumbing myself], and in 2014 I spent six months building Embrace, a seven-story structural engineering nightmare shaped like two giant people. In 2015 I built and did pyrotechnics for the Mazu temple, an interactive temple [complete with fire-breathing dragons] funded by a Taiwanese artist collective. Then I moved onto doing projects [mainly pyrotechnics] and infrastructural help for smaller regional burns: Kiwiburn in New Zealand, Afrikaburn in South Africa, and Nowhere in Spain.
—I spend as much time living out in the woods, out of my car on the open road, or hidden in far-off corners of the world out of a backpack as I can get away with. I've backpacked through Southeast Asia, Yosemite, and parts of Northern California, and did my first Australian modeling tour from Brisbane to Hobart. I've pounded rebar in the Karoo desert of South Africa—a trip that ended with me getting shingles, of all things. I've roamed around Cuba, where I found myself in an Amanda Palmer music video as part of a random chain of circumstances. I've road-tripped solo around Iceland, being lulled to sleep in my small rental car by pounding rain [I even bumped into a photographer I'd worked with in Upstate New York, completely at random, while visiting a glacial lagoon at dawn]. I've stayed on a boat on the Thames in London where I had some bizarre run-ins with memory champions, self-help gurus, child actors, and bitcoin billionaires. I've collected research samples atop treacherous and undisturbed peaks outside of Yellowstone. I've been flown to Taiwan as a tech evangelist. I've been paid to get in the ring for five rounds of Muay Thai against a Thai fighter. And so on.

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