Dutch fashion photographer duo Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, well known for their work for fashion magazines and ad campaigns, recently spoke to Meenal Mistry at Style.com about their stance on shooting models under the age of 18.

Inez van Lamsweerde said: “They start at 14 and everyone says to them, ‘Wow, you’re incredible. You’re so skinny. You look like a boy’. And once that girl is 18 and her body is finished growing, all of a sudden it was like, ‘Oh, she’s fat’. The poor girl. She’s just growing.

“We felt it was unethical to support that. You get judged anyway and it’s not easy. You have to really know who you are first. And at such a tender age—between 14 and 18—you’re figuring out who you are.”

Modelling agency Models Direct, which has everyone from baby models right through to mature models on the books, wants to know what you think. Is it unethical to shoot models under the age of 18 or is it rather the industry’s distorted view of beauty that needs to change?