Let us now look at how the life of a typical girl in the Ukraine changes when a talent scout comes to her town.

The girl is named Anna.

Anna is ten years old, and has two younger brothers, and an older sister, they all live together with their parents in public housing, in a two roomed apartment. That is not two bedrooms as people might think of in the west, but one bedroom for the parents, and a second room that has a kitchen area with a dinning table, and part living room with furniture that they make up into two shared beds for the children. The only place they have any privacy is in the bathroom, in this they are lucky, in some older buildings several apartments sometimes share a communal wash room and toilets.

There are other families who are poorer than they are and some who are better off, that live in bigger apartments or even houses. Few people nearby own cars, most use the buses or trains, and some adults have bikes. Most of Anna's clothes are handed down from her older sister, and of those many would have been second hand from the market or from kind neighbours.

Work in the old industries is getting harder to find as more modern factories in other parts of the world can make things more cheaply, her dad has been worried but so far he has been lucky to keep his maintenance job.

Her parents are always telling them they must do well in school to get a good job, or even any job at all, so Anna is always practising her reading skills, which is why she happens to notice the advertising bill posted on the window of a closed down shop. Top modelling agency looking for attractive girls from eight to fourteen...... etc. etc.

Anna was not vain, but she knew she was considered pretty by others, but her 13 year old sister had been unlucky enough to have chickenpox when a youngster which had left pock marks on her otherwise pretty face. If only things had been different both girls could have tried for the audition.

Anna carefully picked the notice off to take home to show her parents, knowing they must be posted all over town, but with one less on show maybe fewer girls would attend.

She had learned from an early age to look for any advantage or opportunity.

Her parents were wary at first, but the auditions were being held in a large local hall not in some backstreet club, and all applicants had to have one or both parents go with them.

And so Anna went with both mum and dad.

Although they arrived early on the first day of auditions Anna was worried to see the length of the line stretching down the road. She had freshly bathed, both her mum and sister had spent ages working on her hair and nails, her mum had said no to make-up but had allowed her to use a little blush on her cheeks. Now she just waited in her Sunday best dress as the line snaked slowly forwards, catching nervous murmurs of conversation.

At last they were led into a room with a row of tables where ladies were taking down details of the girls, name, age, height, hair and eye colour, address, and so on then they were given a large numbered card. Next they went to a room in small groups and asked in turn to stretch and bend and pose in front of a lady who seemed to be running the show.

After each of the girls in her group had been seen, the woman spoke quietly to her assistant, then they were told they would get a letter if they were considered suitable for the available modelling work in the future.

Anna was feeling quite sad as she thought it was fun to do all the posing stuff, but realised they had all been given the brush-off.

As they were about to leave the room the assistant caught her fathers attention, instead of following the others they were shown to another door, once into the hallway on the other side they were told Anna might be suitable, but they wanted to send some pictures of her to head office, also her parents needed to be interviewed first.

Anna was offered a cola and asked to wait in one glass office while her parents went with a man to the office across the hall where she could see them as they sat and talked. Excited and nervous Anna paced about the room, if she had sat down it would be harder to look across into the other office as only the top half was glass.

Suddenly her father stood up red faced, she could hear his raised voice but not what he was saying. She could see the man hold out his hands to calm down her father, who at last sat down, they continued to talk for a long time, then the man put some books on the table. She could tell they were photo albums, but it was to far away to see the pictures, she wondered if these were fashion pictures for the shops they didn't go to and the magazines they didn't buy. They never bought newspapers or magazines, but any they found they would bring home, after reading them they were cut into squares to use in the bathroom.

She saw the man make a phone call, a little later a lady took tea into the office then came into the room to ask if Anna wanted anything. Anna said she was OK but the young woman could see how edgy she was so decided to stay and talk with the girl.

Anna asked what the man could have said earlier to make her dad shout at him.

The lady smiled and said it was just her dad being a dad, at Anna's look she explained, "The photos we take are a little bit naughty and your dad was only trying to protect you, he wants you to stay his little girl forever."

"How naughty" asked Anna, "is it bikinis or underwear and stuff or like doing sex, I've never done sex" she squeaked.

The woman laughed, "I usually do the make-up for the models, and we have several model web sites that have different styles of pictures, some which have fashion with a few panty shots, others where the girls get more daring, but no, we don't do sex scenes" "I'm ten, I'm not a little girl, I haven't started, you know, my periods yet, but I know about grown up stuff, so what are the daring pictures like?"

"I'm not sure I should be the one to say" said the woman, "I only came in to keep you company, but I suppose it wont hurt. Our top end sites, run from the studio I'm based at produce picture sets men pay to download that have girls in fancy costumes, and by the end of the set they are not wearing the costumes, does that answer your question?

"The add said girls 8-14 and I'm ten, I'm only starting to get small tittie bumps and I don't have any hair down there not like you see in porn magazines", Anna then became red faced realizing she had admitted to having once seen some porn photos, "why would men pay to see naked pictures of a girl like me?"

"Well 60 or 70 years ago it was common for girls your age to marry it still happens in some countries, but laws and customs change. Men see girls who are changing or some-times even younger girls as attractive, they are not allowed to marry or even touch them, the best they can hope for is a photo collection of pretty girls that they can admire."

"I don't think I would mind having my picture taken with no clothes on but I wouldn't want anyone I know to see them" Anna said thoughtfully.

"Well how many people in your area do you know that have a computer and internet access, besides the web sites are aimed at wealthy foreigners like the Americans and they must pay for membership to even get past the first page" explained the woman Valya.

"Do you think I could be a model?" asked Anna, "and does it pay much, I would really love to help my family."

Valya laughed and held Anna's hand, "I like you because you think of your family first, yes I think you could be a good model, and Ivan must think so too or he would not spend so much time talking to your parents. What you can earn is hard to say, you are prettier than many of our girls, and I know because I do their make-up. If your parents sign up for you to only work for us you get a sign on fee, and for each picture set you get a fee, then every time one of your sets is downloaded you get paid part of that money. If you become one of our more popular models you get a bigger share from each sale, do you understand?"

"I think I understand but how do the men get to know about my pictures to buy the sets."

"Well we introduce new models onto our sites with a few pictures and a made-up website name, you don't use your real name, then we say this model has this many sets so far, and we show maybe one or two high res shots or a bunch of really small ones so they can decide if they want to pay for a full set" explained Valya.

"But that still doesn't explain how much I might earn" wined Anna.

"Do you know how much your father earns in a fortnight?" asked Valya, to which Anna shook her head, "You could make that much money in a single day photo shoot, many more times if it becomes a popular set."

Anna was stunned, her head felt funny, she thought for a while she was going to faint, then sat thinking for a time, this could be very important. The add said 8-14 and she was ten, did that mean after fourteen there might be less work, or no work, so in the worst case she had four years to be the best model she could be and Valya knew all about this stuff.

Anna tried to work out what she needed to know, it was clear that if she could ask the right question, the smart question she could get a head start over other girls.

"Valya, have you seen lots of picture sets?" at which the woman nodded, "Then maybe you can tell me what makes a set popular?"

"Straight to the point, but hard to answer, or maybe not, thinking about it a naughty twinkle in the eye as if you know what they are thinking as they look at your photo - and pussy, defiantly - a wet pussy" replied Valya, "those are the secrets that bring guys back to order each new set of a girl that catches their eye."

At that point they were interrupted by the ringing of a mobile phone, Valya pulled out an expensive looking phone and answered the call, Anna was amazed as she realized it was the man calling from just across the hallway.

"Ivan is going to pop back to the main hall for a while, so you can have a talk with your parents alone, they are probably more worried about this than you are, good luck Anna."

"Thanks for answering my questions Valya, will I see you again."

"Sure thing if you get the job and I see your name on the studio list I'll tell the other make-up girls I promised to look after you myself."

She gave Valya a quick hug then ran across through to where her parents were sitting.

Her father was about to speak, but her mum interrupted him, "Let me Igor" she said, unusual for her mum to lead the conversation, so her dad stayed silent for her mum to continue.

"Anna honey, this isn't what we expected, they don't do fashion or advertising photos like we thought this would be about" at which point her mum seemed at a loss with how to continue, so her father took over, "Sweetheart we love you very much, I know you thought it could be fun to be a model, but I think the work....... hours would be to hard on you."

She leaned over and kissed his cheek, "Daddy I love you both, I know your only trying to protect your 'little girl' but I'm not so little, I know what the modelling agency does, I want to be their best model ever, so let me see those albums Ivan showed you."

Her father reached across to pick up the red album, and the three of them looked through it together. The first few pages had photos of just the faces of thirty to forty girls with their web site names, current age, date of birth, and how many photo sets each girl had done. Following on were set samples, some as whole thumb nail sets, and some printed as high quality pictures, on a full page. Anna took over and quickly flicked through to the back of the album, seeing nothing more than a few up-skirt type panty shots, you could see more than that walking around a park.

She pushed the album away, and grabbed for the blue one, her father placed his hand over hers, she turned and gave him 'the look' and he withdrew his hand.

"Are you sure sweetheart?" he asked, "Yes daddy, I know it will have pictures of naked girls, but I'm a girl so is my sister so I wont be too shocked" her remark broke the tension and they all grinned.

The photos were in pairs with a face shot and beside it a shot of the same girl standing naked, Anna took her time to look at the girls and their printed details much like the other album, she also noted her father was red faced which made her smile.

Following on were set samples as before, some as whole thumb nail sets which showed the clothes being slowly removed, and some printed as full page size, in high quality that showed every detail even close-ups of a girl's pussy and bottom.

This time Anna moved slowly through the album, not only looking at each girl but also the amazing clothes that must have been specially made, even down to their shoes or boots, and the beautifully painted fairytale backgrounds. Each girl also had stunning hair styles with fancy make-up, maybe some of Valya's work, some girls also had patterns and flowers painted on their faces or bodies. At the back of the album there were some more face shots of some of the same girls, but the details under each one noted that there were video recordings of some of their photo shoots.

Anna thought about this, if guys were willing to pay for still photo sets they must get charged more for the videos therefore surely the girl must get paid more as well, Anna was no ones fool, yes a bright girl for her age.

Anna returned to the front of the album to look up the girls who had done the video shoots, and just as she had guessed it looked like they were the girls who had done the most photo sets as well.

She pointed out one particular girl, turned to look at her mum and dad, then said, "She's the best one there for now, but I'm going to be better than her."

"Daddy you talked with that man Ivan, about the model agency, the business stuff, about how much money this would mean for us, I really want to do this, I don't mind taking my clothes off and no-one we know would see the pictures or anything. I know that a lot of people are losing their jobs here, and I see the news every day, and they are always saying it will be hard in our country for a long time. I can do this, at least until I am fourteen and we can all be safe and not have to worry all the time, please daddy, let me do this"

Her father had tears in his eyes, "Sweetheart, that you would do this and think only of your family, shows me you are the brave and loving girl I always knew you were, but they would still want to take the test pictures to send to their head office, you are very pretty but what if they don't offer you the job?"

"Daddy you are silly. Valya the lady I was talking to does the make-up in the studios, she was certain I would pass, and that Ivan would not have spent so much time talking to you unless he really really wanted me to be one of their models. So I want you to tell me all the stuff that he told you"

"OK, he told me they are a proper lawful business, they do nothing that is illegal or criminal in this country, but in many other countries in the west, they could not take pictures of naked young girls, or even girls in their underwear, without being sent to prison."

"That is silly, we have never been to the coast, but lots of families go to the Black sea, or to lake side beaches where everyone goes naked."

"I know sweetheart but let me continue, he told me that in the USA, which is where they do most business almost every home has a computer so that if someone wants to find some pictures of pretty girls they could visit any of the company's web sites, pay a membership fee so they can see the small sample pictures of each photo set, then pay a fee to down-load bigger size pictures onto their computer for each set they like."

"Models get a fee for each photo set they pose for, then they get a small share of the money every time someone pays to download her set, as the number of downloads gets higher they give the successful model a larger share of each payment. Most of the pictures are taken at their studios in Kiev where they have their head office, but he said they sometimes do photo sets out in the countryside as well.

He said the studios get really busy at weekends and school holidays as some models have to travel a long way, mostly by train with a chaperone, usually the girl's mother.

They have a lot of rules to keep the models safe so their parents don't worry, they even have apartments that can be used to stay in for however long a shoot is arranged for."

"Wow, mum and I could be going to Kiev, that would be such an adventure, I think it's about two hours on the train, do you think we would get to stay over?"

At that point they were interrupted by a knock on the door, then Valya came in.

"Hi folks, Anna have you and your parents decided if you want our photographer to do some modelling test shots to send to head office?"

"Yes, yes, yes" she cried out, "I'm going to be your best model ever."

"Well if enthusiasm counts for anything you could be right" she looked over to Anna's father and raised an eyebrow, to which he gave a brief nod. "In that case I'll show you and your mum along the hallway to our temporary studio, and Ivan should be back soon to go over some paperwork with your dad. That just leaves the question of which of our sites you would be comfortable to pose for?"

Almost before Valya had finished speaking Anna shouted, "The blue album, definitely the blue one" out of the corner of her eye she could see her father shrug his shoulders in resignation.

Anna hadn't realised this building was so big inside, but then this was the better end of the town, as they passed down another hallway she could hear raised voices coming from one office. Valya shook her head, "I could have told them that was a non starter, the parents are keen, and their daughter is pretty, they dragged her along, but she just doesn't want to be a model, the pictures would show it, they are wasting time and they're upsetting the poor girl."

At the end of the hall a lady was sitting on a chair reading a book beside a closed door, as they walked up the woman looked up and told Valya to go right in as the last applicant had just left.

As they passed through into the large bright room on the other side Anna joked, "Is that lady the security guard," Valya smiled and said, "In a way yes, we are only here for two days, it's a make do studio, so she wont let anyone in during your photo shoot" then Valya turned to speak with Anna's mum, "Would you like to sit here Ella, you will be able to see all that goes on, not as well organised as our real studios but the process is much the same.

Anna you sit here so I can put on a little make-up and check your hair, then Sandra can take some shots dressed as you are then in maybe one or two costumes."

Anna had been taking in all the details as they had moved over to the make-up table which seemed to have more products than she had ever seen in one place, and the room was filled with lights on stands and silver coloured umbrellas all around a couch in front of a cloth back-drop.

The photographer, Sandra had waved at them but looked busy with some computer equipment over next to all the expensive looking cameras.

Anna looked at herself in the mirror when Valya had finished, she was surprised as she had felt the make-up being put on but it didn't look like she was wearing any, maybe her eyes looked bigger and her lips a shade darker but all done with a delicate touch.

"All done, we will go and introduce you to Sandra when she gets finished with those down-loads, she's sending shots of the last girl back to head office but the internet connection out here is a bit slow. You didn't think we were going to send old fashioned photos in the post back to head office did you?" with a smile Valya went on to explain that they had both men and women photographers, but liked to start new models, especially for nude shots with Sandra or one of the other women to help them feel at ease. Later on models would be paired with different photographers so that the models could find one they liked working with best, because if the model was relaxed they ended up with better pictures.

When she was introduced to Sandra, instead of getting on taking pictures she took her hand and lead her over to the couch, where they sat and talked, Anna was asked about her home life, school, hobbies and things she was interested in. Sandra got up asking Anna to stay on the couch, as she pointed out all the equipment and what it was for, as they carried on their conversation. Sandra asked Anna to move this way and that as Sandra walked around behind the cameras, saying she needed to take some more shots but this time with various infill lights that would flash as she was working.

Sandra managed to catch Anna's look of surprise as she had not realised that Sandra had been using a small remote control all this time to operate one of her cameras.

As the session continued Anna listened carefully to directions and found it great fun.

Sandra suggested it was time to go and choose a costume, and sent her back to Valya who was talking quietly with her mum as they had watched her progress.

There were three, wheeled hanging rails filled with exotic colourful outfits, Anna didn't have a clue where to start.

Valya came up and put a hand on her shoulder, "I have a photo album here showing girls wearing these different outfits, take a look through it, it may help you choose."

After flipping through all the pictures she found the outfit she wanted, it was a harem girl type costume, a loose lacy jacket top with two ribbon ties in the front, a very fine veil type head-dress, tiny semi see-through tie sided panties, with a pair of totally see-through harem trousers, all in yellow with white trimmings. Valya checked the details, then picked it from the rail saying how it was a good choice as it could fit a wide age group whereas a lot of outfits were meant to be skin tight, and would not look right unless you were very close to the size of the girl it had been made for.

Anna slipped off her best dress which she handed to her mother then stepped out of her panties and shoes, glad that both the dressing area and the make-shift studio had carpets, she had also noted the room was warm enough to be comfortable standing there naked.

Valya suggested placing the panties on the chair, sit on them then tie the sides, as she had been at a loss how to do it while standing up. She went on to say they often had girls in the studio who helped you to dress and change outfits, this was so you could change without messing up your hair or make-up, also to avoid getting make-up on the clothes.

Anna was having the best time ever being pampered, dressing up, and she really didn't mind about the naked bit, but the cola she had had earlier was wanting out, she needed to pee before the next set. Valya said they choose this room because it had it's own toilet, as she pointed out the door then turned to talk with Anna's mum.

This was just the break she needed in more ways than one as she moved past the make-up table she carefully palmed a small tin of Vaseline she had seen earlier, and took it with her to the toilet.

Although the panties had caused some difficulties at first with the ties, there was enough elastic give that she could pull them up and down without having to now undo the ties.

After peeing and wiping herself she prised the lid off the small tin and smeared a small amount of the greasy substance along her pussy groove, bringing to mind the words Valya had said about the most popular sets, "and pussy, defiantly - a wet pussy" in the studio lights this would make her look wet, much better than her previous idea using her finger to add a little spit, yes much better. She eased the panties back into place,flushed, washed her hands and returned to the main room replacing the small tin without anyone noticing, then walked over to the studio area to continue posing in her new outfit.

Moving as Sandra directed was good fun, and she caught on to the idea that she was supposed to tease her audience as she slowly undressed, she thought about how she had seen older girls flirting with even older guys, head down looking up at them coyly through fluttered eyelashes, playing with their hair, or their buttons, in her case she slowly pulled at the ties first on her jacket then later the little yellow panties. As she rolled about on the couch or floor she made a point of keeping her pussy or bottom aimed at the cameras.

After several naked shots Anna was down on the floor on all fours looking backwards over her shoulder, she winked at the camera just as Sandra took the shot.

"I think that's it for today" said Sandra, "we won't need any other costumes for you young lady, if I don't get a reply from head office to sign you up straight away, then I should throw away my cameras and become a tram driver."

Anna looked on as Sandra was swiftly typing on her computer, and watched as various progress bars crept slowly forwards realizing her images were flowing down wires all the way to Kiev, and with them the possibility of a change in her life for the better.

Anna thanked Sandra for being so nice to her, and Sandra said she had been easy to work with and she looked forwards to photographing her again in the future.

Anna changed back into her best dress that now looked dull and shabby when compared to the fantasy wardrobe she was surrounded by, then they were guided back by Valya to the room where her father was waiting with Ivan.

Ivan asked Valya how the test shoot had gone, to which she said Anna had impressed Sandra with how well she had done in front of the camera, and called her a natural born model. Anna was so pleased she thought if her smile got any bigger some crook would come along and steal all her teeth.

Valya had to go off again, as Ivan and her parents started talking about release forms and all the other paperwork stuff, needed for models when Ivan's phone rang, after a brief chat he stood up and held out his hand to her father, "Igor, it is my pleasant job to inform you that our company would like to sign up Anna to be one of our models."

To be continued.