CASTING REPORT: FACE OF LONDON RUNWAY 2019 Rhiannon D’Averc reports on the second and final day of casting for the Face of London Runway competition, and introduces your finalists! We saw a very successful second date of castings for the Face of London Runway 2019 – almost running out of time to get through everyone that had arrived to audition for us before the day was up! Together with Maxine Griffiths of The Model Workshops London, and photographers Jose Graca and Fil Mazzarino, we sat down to put the hopefuls through their paces. They walked before us, took part in individual and group photo tests, and spoke to us about their ambitions as well as the preparation they had done before arriving to the casting. Big lesson #1: always do your research before attending a casting
call! Those who had not looked into London Runway or the opportunity at all were singled out easily, and those who had done all of their research – as well as preparing their application photos properly and checking the requirements – already had an advantage before they walked. By the end of the day, we had narrowed the selected down to a group of semi-finalists, including some who had been called back from our first day of casting. This group now nervously awaited their chance to get into the final...
again to six male and six female finalists. Well, seven male – when it came down to it, there were a couple of entrants who tied in our estimations! The finalists, who you will see in images over the next pages (and in no particular order), are:
1. Leianda Burke 2. Shelby Howard 3. Leyre Gomez 4. Ophelie Agboton 5. Ariunzul Oyunbaatar
Their last opportunity to impress us came in the form of a high-stakes photoshoot. Each model was given just 30 seconds to pose in front of the camera, giving us everything they had while their fellow competitors looked on.
6. Ruth Ricardo
From these images, we were able to whittle down the selection once
12. Michael Barnes
Photography throughout by Jose Graca and Fil Mazzarino
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7. Zarishon Rambissoon 8. Johnny Cheung 9. Lorenzo Luciani 10. Soren Paillon 11. Lucas Danton 13. Jordan Walfall
