289 - Clémentine Schneidermann

Yeah, so I think after we did that first shoot with Charlotte, we were like, "Right, this is great, but how can we improve this?" And, and Charlotte's, you know, was like, "I think, you know, we should do host, like, workshops, so they can actually learn how to be stylists and make their own clothes, and they can learn about photography." So it was kind of like we decided from then, from then that each shoot would be done.

They, they would be working on the clothes beforehand.

They would be helping us styling themselves.

So we ha- we, we worked closely with youth centers and youth workers, um, and we asked them, you know, "Can we have an afternoon with the girls where we would bring, like, a sewing machine, and we would bring all the, all the clothes?" And the ...

We were really, we were really teaching the girls how to, like, um, sew their own clothes and attach things and customize and things like that, so all the clothes felt like they were done by them, and it wasn't just like ...

And this is h- kind of how we did it then.

T- so, like, the black sh- the black picture you mentioned, if you look at it closely, you know, they have so many little details of, like, things they've been gluing with glue guns, and it's lovely.

Mm.

And, and Charlotte was obviously there to, like, you know, help them and kind of ...

She's a creative director, so she was creative directing all the shoots and, like ...

Because I'm, I'm not ...

Like, if without her, you know, these pictures would be totally different [laughs] and, like, way more ...

I don't have that, that eye she's got for colors and, and how she does this.

It's very good.

So yeah, and then we did the black shoots.

The girls liked it, and then we kept.

We did a, a, you know, a red shoot, Valentine's shoot.

Then we did a green shoot.

Then we did a, a, a shoot on the beach.

We did a ...

We did, like, I think ... 'Cause now I'm working on a book, so I've been looking very closely at every single shoot, and I think we've done at least 15 shoots-

Mm

... across 10 years.

Um-

Wow.