laptop battery blogs: Rebel Girl: Briar Rose

Briar Rose is an alternative and art model from Italy with a sincere love for artistry. But she is not your typical alternative model. Instead, she thrives off romantic characters that she creates. Characters that are drawn from her love of myths, folklore and Gothic artists like Victoria Francès. Keep reading to understand just how different she is!

Photography by Jacques Rarraz[/caption]Tell us about your career as model. How did you get started? In my late teenage years I started growing fond of the romantic gothic culture as a whole, especially of its artistic side. I was a big fan of the Spanish illustrator Victoria Francès, and I wanted to bring a little of the beauty of her drawings in my everyday life. I bought, or made, lacy skirts and corsets and used to go to parks with friends to take photos in them and spend a fun afternoon together. I posted the photos we took online, on DeviantArt, where Luis, a Belgian photographer also known as Image of You, noticed them and asked me to pose for him. We met in Paris, where I was for my high school diploma present, and with that first shooting in 2009 I discovered my true love for photography.Did you always want to be a model or did you have other career aspirations when you were growing up? If I had the chance to meet the teenage me and tell her she would become a model in a couple of years, she would have burst into laughter and told me "Yeah, enough with the joking, I'll go back to my book now." I was the complete opposite of a little girl who wants to become a model: nerdy, often called "ugly", I was more interested in novels than in makeup. I wanted to become an anthropologist or a UN ambassador. Growing up, I felt the need to direct myself towards a more artistic career. Still, I don't see modeling in my future: it's just a temporary passion and part-time job.If you had to choose, which would be your favourite genre? I love conceptual shootings. As I said before, I wanted to become an anthropologist, and I love myths and folklore in general. I like to bring stories and traditions in my photos. Sometimes I even bring my studies in them, like when I took a series of photos about shamanism. There are also times when I try to represent the lyrics of a song or a poetry I'm fond of. It's not just your usual alternative photography.What's it like to be an alternative model in Italy? Is the community strong? Alternative models have quite a hard time in Italy: we're still quite traditional here. The alternative scene is slowly growing in these last years, and most models are supportive to each others, but photographers often look for the "Suicide Girl" clichè. It's quite difficult to find someone willing to make something really creative.You say that you aim for your images to be like an artwork. You say "It's like acting, just in a frozen moment." Could you tell us more about this? Do you think more models should keep this mindset?I really want people who look at my photos to feel something. When posing, I always keep in mind the story I want to tell, of the emotions I want to convey. I used to act in theatre and I bring a lot of that in my modeling work. I'm like an actress, but I can't use my voice, so I have to put a double effort in being expressive with just my body and looks. I think this is a good mindset for models who want to "tell" something in their photos. If it's just work, for example a fashion ad, there are other things to concentrate on.