Lanky, vacant, ethereal, exquisite young things in heavy makeup and clothes that probably cost more than the average house in their native hometown–Runway models are something like the shimmering clothes hangers of the fashion industry, emerging amidst product as a product themselves, complete with unpredictable shelf life.
Sara Ziff’s new documentary, Picture Me, is a by-chance project compiled over her twelve years of experience in the industry, launched at age fourteen, where she cashed in with major campaigns and walked the runway in Chanel Couture. What began as casual documentation with her then-filmmaker boyfriend (Ole Schell) turned into something of an espionage experiment.



The documentary features big names in modeling, photography, and design sharing stories and views on one of the most criminally overlooked behind-the-scenes industries in the world. Models discuss, among other things, the psychological impact of their run-ins with photographers and professionals who want far more than photos, and how such blatant exlpoitation has become as common as the photos that run for print.
Learn more about this inside look at ” living dolls”, which has already garnered a ton of media attention and multiple film festival awards to boot:
































