Rosie Jones and Natalie Blair in CKM
Rosie Jones and Natalie Blair appear together in a shared feature for the Polish men's monthly CKM.
CKM was Poland's best-known men's monthly, and like its counterparts elsewhere in Europe it mixed lifestyle features, gadgets and humour with glamour photography. It worked with a wide range of models, and its pages were not limited to its home market. Shoots travelled well between markets: a set produced in the UK could be licensed and run abroad with a new introduction in the local language.
This feature brought two models together. Pairing Rosie Jones and Natalie Blair gave CKM's readers a double billing in a single set, which is always a stronger cover line than a solo shoot.
The two-model shoot
Shoots with two models are harder to pull off than they look. The photographer has to balance two people in every frame, keep both looking natural, and avoid a set that reads as two separate shoots stitched together. When it works, the result has an easy, relaxed energy that a solo set rarely matches; the models play off each other, and the pictures feel more like a scene than a pose.
Duo features of this kind were a recurring idea across the lads' magazines of the time, whether framed as best friends on holiday, a shared location shoot or a simple studio set with matching styling.
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