Profile photographs are the portraits heading each woman's page, taken by the house in daylight after meeting her, and they are how most guests make their choice.
Guests choose from pictures, and experienced guests have learned to distrust them. Online, the trade is crowded with images that were borrowed, filtered heavily or taken years ago. This catalogue answers that in the plainest way it can: each portrait on the roster was taken by the house, in daylight, of a woman the office had already met in person.
Treat a profile as a sequence rather than a single frame. Most carry four photographs; Jasmin's carries seven, while Danielle's and Liana's carry three. The first image shows how she chooses to present herself, and the later ones show the same woman from other angles and in other light, which says more than any one flattering shot could. Heights are printed beside the images, Lea the shortest at 165 cm and Milena the tallest at 175 cm, because a photograph on a phone screen gives no sense of scale.
Daylight matters more than it sounds. Evening light hides and flatters in equal measure, while a window at midday shows hair colour, skin and build much as they will look under a bedside lamp.
The house expects the woman at the door to be the woman in the frame, and a guest who finds otherwise should say so on the booking line straight away, before any balance changes hands. That is the rare case. The more familiar one is a guest who found the pictures accurate and still sensed the evening was not quite a match; the journal piece on when you did not click handles that kindly.
Photographs show a face and a figure. They cannot show a laugh, a voice or the calm some women bring into a room, which is why the short notes under each portrait are worth reading as carefully as the images. For a method that reads the whole wall at once, see reading the contact sheet.