Stories from Set: When Clients Sexualize Each Other During Your Shoot

"You're just trying to lift her legs up higher to make her skirt shorter, aren't you?" It's amazing how quickly what seems like a perfectly comfortable, fun environment turns into hostile territory for women in an instant by men making what they think are innocuous comments, like this one. It started off as a normal enough day, with reasonable enough expectations. I needed to help the photographer I was assisting set up for studio portraits. That was one of my two main responsibilities: the othe...