Police investigating after Montreal women report suspicious man asking to pose for nude photos

Two Montreal women are sharing their story about a man who they say approached them on the street posing as a photographer and then asked for nude photos. Montreal police say they have opened an investigation into the complaints.

Xian Goh was on her way to her gym in Montreal's Plateau neighbourhood on June 28 when she says she was approached on the corner of Saint-Dominique Street and Mont-Royal Avenue by a man who claimed to be a photographer from Toronto.

The man told the 20-year-old Montrealer that he had two days to complete a photography project with a friend that required him to shoot body silhouettes.

"He looks amicable, he physically looks like a very kind person," said Goh of the man.

At first glance, Goh said the man seemed harmless. So much so that she thought he was one of those TikTok street photographers who asks to take photos of random people in the street.

And since he had told her that the purpose of his project was to capture silhouettes, Goh says she thought that he would only be photographing her shadow.

But that wasn't the case.

He told her that he wants to take pictures of her from the waist down.