OTM (On Track Modeling) aka
AMG (Alpha Model Group)
To Whom It May Concern:
I had joined OTM at the end of 2000.
I wasn't sure what to expect from them, but I was taking
a chance. Big mistake.
I used their photographer and ended up getting crappy
pictures. My mom takes better pictures than they do and
that's using a normal camera.
I paid so much money to get the pictures done figuring
that I could probably make it up with modeling jobs.
The only jobs I got were two promotional jobs at the
Penn State football games. I made $50 for each job. I
didn't even see my money until about four months later.
If anybody is even thinking of joining OTM, think again,
and find some place else to go.
Promotional modeling, which appears to be almost exclusively
what OTM can get models, does not pay well (the standard
rate is $15/hr), and there isn't very high demand for
it.
That is why promotion models should not pay for expensive
photos. There is a high risk they will never make more
in modeling jobs than they paid for the photography.
It is not a fair business practice to charge models
more than they will earn. Agencies are not supposed to
make any money from anything besides the work they get
models. That is the ethical standard of the modeling
industry.
If the OTM photographer is an amateur, not professional,
or a member of their staff, they should take the photos
of new models and it should cost the models nothing.
Who is the OTM photographer?
Why were you paid four months after working? In the
state of Florida, for example, agencies must pay talent
five days after receiving payment from the client.
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