Wearing an understated but chic outfit, flowing braids and a dewy, make-up free face, Arop Akol looks like your typical off-duty model.
She sinks into the sofa at the offices of her UK agency, First Model Management, and details the burgeoning career that has seen her walk runways for luxury brands in London and Paris.
"I had been watching modelling online since I was a child at the age of 11," Akol, now in her early twenties, tells the BBC.
In the last three years, she has been streamed across the world while modelling, even sharing a runway with Naomi Campbell at an Off-White show.
Travelling for work can get lonely, but Akol is constantly bumping into models from her birth country - the lush, but troubled South Sudan.
