Joburg folks in the 'creative' field are very weird x strange too. You will ask to collaborate, they will talk of managers or simply reject you cause, they don't know you or when they check your handle on ig, there is less that 20 likes on most of your images or cause you...

... Shoot documentary or street style which obviously isn't a trend, because that type of work requires alot research, spirituality, sociology, patience x psychology but once they see that you making waves. They will start liking your work x DM'ing you and want to work for free.

Especially the people who work along fashion/editorials. Forgetting that some of us are multidisciplinary artists, we don't even drop a overload of work for likes. We studied x researched the things yal doing. There's only few 'creative', who have solid work, some get...

Opportunities because they have a huge following, some have work because of trends x have connections x money with less talent. Someome even blocked me cause I rejected to work along, cause they refused to pay while they have been modeling for top brands.