EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT
BERTUS AKA THE BLOODY BUTCHER WITH REX.A.C.SILVER
Last issue Bertus generously gave us an insight into how he executes his photo shoots with his creative “right arm” photographer Jella Mollema. He passed this knowledge on primarily to give some inspiration to our Barbers submitting entries to our inaugural Australian Modern Barber Awards, I thank him for that, and I hope you enjoyed the piece. Doing his photo shoots and projects may indeed be Bertus’ passion, but it’s not the aspect of his Barbering life that is closest to his heart. “The Old School” is a Barbering institution that attracts students world-wide. Some big talent Barbers from Australia have walked through its doors of course, Jono Tavita Goodwin and Don DeSanctis to name 2 recent alumni.
Let’s have a look at THE 5-DAY MEDIA COURSE We talk to Bertus: THE TEACHER - THE EDUCATOR – THE MASTER TO US BARBER NINJA’S As international travel starts again are you getting students from abroad coming back to the Old School yet? Oh yeah for sure, UK and Europe are back, we actually had a couple of American students coming in recently again too, it’s fantastic. I’m really, really happy. We’re attracting people from all around the world, of course, with The Old School, we got a lot of people from the UK. We got people from Germany, Poland, France, so slowly it’s coming back. So, let’s hope this is a positive. I really hope this is gonna’ continue because the school, at the moment, is really where all my heart is. You know, when it was closed, we did a lot of other work in the school. I just really love to teach. So, I’m very, very happy that we have a full classes again.
“I think it’s our best course. It is very intense, you walk away with photos that are so professional, made by Jella and a knowledge of how to use them through socials.”
You mentioned you did other work during the height of the pandemic and lockdowns for you guy’s, did you do online education or just sort of wait it out a bit? Yeah, no, we waited it out. I’m not a big fan of online classes. I don’t really enjoy them myself. So, if I don’t enjoy something myself, I find it hard to be genuine. If I have to do it and I’m not into it, it’s not going to be a good class. So, what I like to do is make my step-by-step, videos. I just kind of throw online for free, you know, so because you can watch a video and you can learn a lot and learn everything because there’s only one angle. (Roberts step by step videos are raw, unproduced and shot from the chair as if you were standing next to him on the shop floor)
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