Moses Ally
Moses Ally could be considered the new kid on the block on the local modelling scene, but he already has strong opinions about what he would change if he could and what could be done better.
Currently attached to Kast Talents, a recently founded modelling agency run by Khamisi Slowe, 19-year-old Moses said he chose to sign with Kast because it was open to men unlike many others that seem to target only women. Since he started with the agency six months ago, Moses has done a number of photoshoots and at least one fashion show.
Moses, who is six feet tall, was drawn to modelling because of the glamour it exudes and also because he noticed that models are always in the limelight. He feels the need to shine, not just for himself but to be an example to young boys and girls. Moses realized this was a way to kill two birds with one stone.
His need to hold himself up as an example was illuminated when he shared about his early life. Growing up in a single-parent home, Moses was faced with many misfortunes. There were many days when he went without lunch and sometimes breakfast and dinner too. Yet his intelligence won him a place at St Rose’s High School, but he never set foot inside the door. Instead, he was sent to St Joseph High, but for only a week. Because of financial difficulties, Moses’s mother had to send him to a school run by the Central Islamic Organization of Guyana.
There were numerous times when he did not have the required material for class sessions as there was no money to purchase them. This did not always sit well with the teachers and classmates looked down on him. Despite these challenges, he passed 10 of the 11 subjects when he sat the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate examinations. Art was the subject he did not pass, and he found this very upsetting. Moses explained that while he got an A for his drawing, graphic design was his downfall and not because he was bad at it, but because he did not know he had to take his own equipment to do his design and while he did a free hand drawing, it was not acceptable. He did not own a laptop or printer and could no the other stud things that m make a better his mother.
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