This time, a Latvian girl from Norway. Any translation complaints should be directed to ChatGPT
Working Stark Naked
Latvian Daiga Ludborza (21) works in the nude for architecture students in Bergen.
— I have no inhibitions, I like being a model, this is just fun, Daiga assures.
At the Bergen School of Architecture in Sandviksbodene, there is a drawing class. Twenty third-year students are setting up their easels in a cozy studio. In a couple of minutes, the tall Daiga will drop her robe and position herself completely naked on a red carpet dangled over four pallets.
On the walls of the white room hang figure drawings from previous sessions.
— That’s me! Daiga points to a naked body boldly stretched across the paper on the wall.
— But that one isn’t me—I don’t have such a big butt, she smiles, pointing to the drawing next to it.
Learned Oslo Norwegian
Daiga is a smiling, open, and confident woman. She has only been in Norway and Bergen for nine months, yet she already speaks Norwegian well.
— That’s because I took a Norwegian course in Riga before coming to Norway, she explains.
Still, it wasn’t entirely easy to understand the dialect when she moved here last year. In Riga, Daiga had indeed learned Norwegian—but Oslo Norwegian.
— But now it’s going well, she smiles, even rolling her r’s a bit in the Bergen way.
She found the job as a nude model online, under job listings on nav.no.
— But I don’t really do this modeling job for the money, more because I enjoy being a model.
In addition, she works as a cleaner at a school on Sotra.
Back in Latvia, she has experience from the catwalk. She also worked as an erotic photo model.
Many poses
— But there’s a difference between taking off your clothes in front of one photographer and in front of twenty students, she says.
— It felt a bit strange the first time; it was a new experience to have so many people looking at me. But I think it’s nice to be able to help these students learn to draw, says Daiga.
— The students don’t care about my breasts—it’s the whole body they need to capture.
During one session as a life model, Daiga goes through eight one-minute poses, three three-minute poses, two five-minute poses, and finally two twenty-minute poses, with breaks in between.
— In the long sessions, my legs sometimes “fall asleep,” and occasionally I even doze off myself in the warmth of the spotlights, Daiga says cheerfully.
After posing, she puts on her robe and reviews the drawings together with the students.
— They often ask me if I recognize myself, she says.
And she usually does—just as long as they don’t make her butt too big.
— That’s how I am, a bit crazy
In Bergen, Daiga lives in Åsane with her boyfriend from Bergen. At the moment, she is looking for a full-time job so she can obtain a residence permit in Norway.
— Since I have some experience with clothing, I’d like to work in a clothing store, she says. She has no desire or ambition to be a full-time nude model, even though she began her adult life by stripping in front of an audience of 500 in the small Latvian village she comes from—when she was just 16 years old.
— Rogovka is a special village. In Latvia, people often say, “Are you crazy, or are you from Rogovka?”
— That’s how I am—a bit crazy, she adds with a laugh.