The many Linda fans will be interested to know that she has been tracked down by Russian website rbfeet.com.

There is a lengthy interview in four parts: we discover that Linda is 45, is of Swiss and Italian descent, has a daughter and has left Paris for a small village in Franche-Comté.

Especially the last part is quite interesting, as Linda recalls the barefoot photo sessions around Paris.

The text is obviously in Russian, but can be easily translated with Google and becomes quite intelligible:

Part 1: http://rbfeet.com/news/1251.htm?p=2
Part 2: http://rbfeet.com/news/1252.htm?p=2
Part 3: http://rbfeet.com/news/1253.htm
Part 4: http://rbfeet.com/news/1254.htm

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I am almost 100% sure that this "interview" is fake... Some time ago Nastya Deiniris reported a false interview to her in this same site...

What a pity, it should have been great getting to know more about Linda.

i think its fake too, but the pictures arent, it was nice to seem them again, Linda is one of my all-time fav. models.. and she has such a lovely face..

many many years agao, when rbfeet was new the content was quite good, but then the models became younger and younger, much too young for my taste , i have never been on this site again since today, and having a short look at the general gallery confirmed me.. abhorrent!

I'll trust you guys that this is a fake interview, but I suppose Arnaud could probably verify the truth, if he's around.

Outside of my CF girls, I guess I like Linda...no, LOVE Linda as a world class barefoot model. I've always wondered what her nationality was...with her dark Mediterranean features...again, I love this classically beautiful model and would like to know more about her. She's sheer class.

Interview is mostly fake, I'm afraid !

In defence of RBFeet, they do sometimes feature very young models which is of course totally unacceptable but they also feature older women. I think, like Bocukom, it's kind of blind to the erotic potential of barefoot women - they even feature men for goodness sake - and just see being barefoot as some sort of project or lifestyle.
Just to a little off piste for a bit, the latest updates from Bocukom are brilliant featuring a woman of at least 30 leaving her home and driving barefoot apparently to the shops, a theme which I've been urging on CF for ages (and which in fairness has been the focus of Kapa's latest shoot).
Both Bocukom and RBFeet seem to be coming from a different place than CF and I think we might have been a bit hard on them in these columns. That's not to say I find it as disturbing and as uncomfortable as the next man to see young models featured but that's in the context of our motivations for visiting these sites, maybe.
Thus endeth the lesson.
Mike 123

Dear DG, I respect you very much as an enthusiast, a good photographer and a good writer. I also noticed long ago that you stand for the peaceful resolution of conflicts, mutual respect and tolerance. Therefore, I appeal to you the complaint of Igor Rezun. Nastya Deniris is a very heavy person. Rezun says that it was hard for him to interview her. “She behaved somehow strangely, sometimes got angry for no reason,” he recalls. Perhaps they had a dispute over some phrases. But this does not mean that the entire interview was fake, which follows from your words. I ask you to remember what exactly Nastya accuses Rezun of. After all, you did not provide any links. I searched the entire site and did not find her statement about this. Maybe she complained to you privately? I beg you to explain why you had the impression that Rezun was to blame for Nastya in some way, so that he could answer all the reproaches.

Sir, I am surprised by the accusations of my friend Igor Rezun of fabricating fakes. Of course, it's a matter of taste. If you don't like young girls, it's a little weird, but it's up to you. If you think that the beginning of the site was good, and the current state is bad, it is your right to think so. But why did you so easily agree with the accusation against him of faking interviews?

Dear Mr. Arnaud, I respect you as the creator of true photo masterpieces and a classic of the barefootography. But I was very upset by the only line in this thread that you hastily wrote, without thinking about how it will affect the person mentioned in it. By the way, Rezun considers you to be his teacher. He constantly diligently copied your professional techniques and always emphasized this continuity. Since you did not provide a single fact to confirm or refute the assumption that the interviews with Linda are fake, although this is what other participants in the discussion asked you, I get the impression that you simply did not read them. What is the reason for your bias? Many years before that you sent him a photo for exchange, which he could then use for an article about Linda on his website. Thanks. But even more he expected a kind, an encouraging word from you, and did not receive a single line. This resentment remained for life. Rezun knows no other foreign language than French. Therefore, faced with your cold reaction, he made no more attempts to communicate with foreign colleagues and has not even registered so far in this forum, where I have the honor to be present. Rezun is a professional journalist, member of the Union of Journalists of Russia. In addition, he is a writer, author of fiction books - mostly detective stories, mystical thrillers. In his books, he invents some heroes, but in journalism he strictly adheres to the facts. An extensive and informative interview with Linda was followed by an interview with her friend, a singer Pascale Frossard. Linda is now unavailable for communication, this is her right, but Mrs. Frossard has a Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pascale.frossard2 and could confirm that Rezun did not invent anything.

I have just discovered this topic. Thank you for your kind words addressed to the website "Barefoot in Russia" and its owner Igor Rezun. I generally like your contribution to the forum, I have long noticed that we are on the same wavelength. Rezun has been engaged in barefootography since 2000, his site, founded in 2004, has shown approximately 300 models, has published 2,500 galleries, and enjoys 20,000 visits per month. In addition to his own creativity, Rezun provided materials on foreign barefooting on his website. Among them is a photo report from Scotland that you have found. But this is only a small part of the content of this site, which, unfortunately, has not been working since March 2019 for technical reasons. True, in July last year a new website was created https://newrbfeet.ru/ , there is also a Facebook page of the Studio “Russian Bare Feet” https://www.facebook.com/groups/906540522764343/ and the private Facebook page of Igor Rezun https://www.facebook.com/igor.rezoon?sk=abo...93%3A1595303826. And most importantly, you can get acquainted with all the photos taken over the entire time, at this link https://newrbfeet.ru/category/arhiv/. Not every webmaster can view such a huge number of photos for free! The site contains not only photos, but also interviews with famous barefooters that Rezun did until 2018. Unfortunately, there is no access to these publications right now. Something can be found by a special method in the archives of the Internet. But a lot has been lost forever. This activity has now been taken over by another person, Vladimir Zalessky, but his contribution to this heading is still insignificant.
In 2011, during a photo shoot in an abandoned building, retreating to fit the model into the frame, Rezun fell through the dilapidated floor and was seriously injured. His pelvic bones were crushed, he underwent six difficult operations, wears an implant in his body. But his work remains as optimistic and his enthusiasm and admiration for the beauty of a barefoot woman has not been affected. What other barefootographer has made such great sacrifices for the sake of art?
Yes, his method is slightly different from other barefootographers. He does not use ready-made models, but educates them. He has children, girls and mature women in a ratio of approximately 20: 50: 30 percent. But he never uses prostitutes as models. He stands for the popularization of foot fetish, for taking it out of the underground. Foot fetish is legal, it is not banned in any country in the world. Stop being afraid! This is his message. In everything that Rezun does, children under 18 can also participate. In life, he is a school teacher and author of role games. One of these games, which lasted for 10 years, was actually the Novosibirsk Association of Barefooters. Through it, he was able to attract many models for barefoot photographs. So far, Rezun has not had any trouble for filming minors. Of course, he always asked for parental consent. A written contract was drawn up with all the models that he shot (and in the case of minors, with their parents). What Rezun does is really both a project and a lifestyle. But it has also an erotic component. Of course, men also participated in the activities of the Association, and this is reflected in its photo chronicle, which was almost completely cancelled along with the Association itself by his personal decision in the winter of 2017, simply because he was tired of this game and others replaced it, but he used almost exclusively women in the art photography and, of course, he shot and shoots them in a different way than for the chronicle. Let me quote him: “We are convinced that a person who is inclined to barefoot walking, whether he is a man or a woman, cannot help but feel the eroticism of this process, the process of demonstrating his or her bare feet. The opposite would be contrary to both the theory of sexuality and common sense. We are struggling to ensure that foot-fetish moods (desires, motivations, products) get out of the category of socially “condemned”, “forbidden”, considered as “deviation” and so on. We stand for complete freedom of a person's sexual choice, his sexual preferences, for the legalization of a person's choice of a form in which his sexuality manifests." He expresses these thoughts publicly, realizes openly his sexual preferences and nevertheless is a well-known, respected person in his city. Thank you for reading my long message.

dear e358ln,

thank you very much for your response and your long replies here in the forum.
this was quite a while ago since we posted about the interview, and from what i can remember, just by the aestethics of the whole interview pages i had a strange feeling that lead me to the impression that it was probably setup and not real?

i absolutely dont want to offend anybody, and if i did, i´m very sorry for that.

and for the age, feet do have a very strong sexcual component for me, its not just about barefooting, hence every girl that looks younger than a certain age (18-20) is an absolute no-go for me.

Thank you again so much, for going all in detail about Igor, who he is, and what he all did and how he is involved in everything and what his great goal is, that was very inspiring to read!!

Dear e358ln,

Thanks for taking the time to write.

I realize Nastya had an explosive personality, becoming angry for no reason. I can't remember if she mentioned that in a private conversation or not, I guess it was that way.

I don't doubt of Igor's excellent qualities, her photos prove to be superb and with a great aesthetically power. His site is continuing over and over during time.

Dear DG, this is the answer I was expecting, thank you very much! I will ask you later in a personal message some questions about Peruvian girls.

Dear e358ln,

Thank you very much for sharing the information regarding Mr. Igor Rezun and rbfeet, which is my favourite site. It's our huge pity that the old site is no longer working. I hope the great content there can be salvaged and posted on the new site.

I guess he is one of the founders of http://dirtysoles.1bb.ru/. I am a registered member and spent a lot of time there. Unfortunately I don't speak Russian and cannot communicate with the members there.

Please bring my deepest respect to Mr. Igor Rezun.