Melach Reila

I have been modeling for years by myself and for friends. I have also been modeling for years infrequently with people I do not know. These days I enjoy imagining people I have never met and what they would envision me to be.

I want to build a portfolio that inspires people, not just the serious or sexy look that is misused much too frequently in the aspect of modeling. However, these things are easily included if you know how to capture me. I want people to be able to see who I am or what I am portraying. A model should strive to create an emotion in someone when they stare at a photograph of you. A model should make the viewer think as much as the photographer must be able to capture the model.

I also do my own makeup. I will only let someone else do my makeup if their vision of the shoot is different from my own... or the idea for the shoot was yours and not mine. My version of me or my makeup is mine, your version of me or my makeup is yours but these things are easily integrated into each other because I can be anything I want to be.

I would prefer to do shoots outdoors because that is where I feel the most comfortable with myself but I do not limit myself to that if you have a good idea for the indoors that I am fond of.

The most important reason to model for me is to be able to see myself captured beautifully in an image. Everyone else "sees" me, but I only know myself.

Do you think you can capture me?