My wife said the local agency did pressure her for such pictures, so she gave them a couple of her old images from when she was singing in the nightclubs trying to be discovered.
She also stated she hates those pictures, but she was a singer trying to get noticed and apparently one talent scout actually decided to be honest and tell her they would never sign her, because she is a contraalto, and the recording industry only wants soprano Chinese women.... their loss, my gain