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Artist Spencer Tunick is once again looking for thousands of volunteers to take part in his massive nude photo shoots, now famous around the world. This time, the American artist will travel to Sydney, Australia to draw attention to the dangers of skin cancer with photos of him.
The new shoot, for which Tunick needs at least 2,000 volunteers, takes place on a Sydney beach. The number 2000 is not for nothing: Tunick wants to draw attention to the at least 2,000 Australians who die from skin cancer every year.
The artist works with the Skin Check Champions organization, a charity that offers free skin checkups in clinics, and is organizing filming during National Skin Cancer Week in Australia.
It is not the first time that Tunick has organized a mass nude photo shoot. The artist has already taken more than 100 photos all over the world. Some of those photos:
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Photo shoot of the artist Spencer Tunick in Colombian Bogota -
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Photo shoot by artist Spencer Tunick in Spanish Valencia -
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Photo shoot of the artist Spencer Tunick in Israel -
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Photo shoot by artist Spencer Tunick in Melbourne Australia -
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Photo shoot of the artist Spencer Tunick in English Hull
Also in 2016, 3200 volunteers from twenty different countries came to the port of Hull in the north of England to participate in the project. Sea of Hull. Participants painted each other in four shades of blue upon arrival in Hull.
This can be seen in this video:
‘Suddenly they were all naked’
In 2020 Tunick added a interview met with CNN explains why he chooses naked people for photo shoots. “My job is to bring naked people as close to an abstraction as possible.” He wants to remove the stigma of nudity and encourage people to “respect the human body as an art form, such as a painting or a sculpture”.
