Every once in a while you meet a special person with a phenomenal story. Vanessa Goosen is just such a woman, having spent over 16 harrowing years in a Thai jail after being framed for drug trafficking. We first met in February 2011 (just a few months after she was released) for an insert that O Magazine SA had commissioned me to write about her. Struck by the fact that this lovely former beauty queen, who had been a Miss South Africa semi-finalist, had been deprived of photographs for so much of her adult life, I was moved to shoot a modelling portfolio for her. Continue reading “Magazine Cover Shoot”
