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Hundreds pose nude for Tunick shoot in Israel near Dead Sea
As for Tunick, dressed, in black, he stood on the roof of a recreational vehicle and issued commands on a megaphone.
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Participants pose nude for American art photographer Spencer Tunick, working on a photo installation in the desert landscape surrounding the southeastern Israeli city of Arad, some 15 kilometre west of the Dead Sea, on October 17, 2021. About 300 participants have registered to be part of the nude photo installation, designed to draw world attention to the importance of preserving and restoring the Dead Sea, a unique natural resource and one of Israel’s most famous tourist attractions. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)
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undreds of models wearing only white body paint walked Sunday across a stark desert expanse in southern Israel near the Dead Sea, part of the latest photography project of American artist Spencer Tunick.
As for Tunick, dressed, in black, he stood on the roof of a recreational vehicle and issued commands on a megaphone.
"Everyone put your feet together," he said. "Hands down."
The 54-year-old photographer visited Israel as a guest of the tourism ministry to portray for the third time the shrinking Dead Sea via nude subjects.
"For me the body represents beauty and life and love," said Tunick, who has staged dozens of large-scale nude shoots around the world.
Tunick depicted more than 1,000 nude models a decade ago on the shores of the salty Dead Sea, which is receding at about a metre (yard) a year.
Israel and Jordan have diverted much of the upstream water for agriculture and drinking water, while mineral extraction and evaporation accelerated by climate change have made the problem worse.
