Photographer Spencer Tunick is known for his photographs of large groups of naked people. This time he collaborated with an organization specializing in skin cancer in Australia.
– I have spent half my life in the sun. I have had a few malignant melanomas removed from my back. That’s why I consider this a good adventure, he said Bruce Fasher77, news agency for AFP.
Fasher was one of 2,500 naked people who gathered on Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach early on Saturday morning.
They were attended by an American photographer Spencer Tunick’s for a photo work, the purpose of which, along with art, is to raise awareness of skin cancer. The work was carried out in cooperation with the Australian charity Skin Check Champions, says the newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald (you are switching to another service).
Melanoma is the fourth most common cancer in Australia, affecting more than 17,500 people each year.
Tunick is known for his photographs of large groups of naked people in iconic settings. Last year, for example, Tunick immortalized 200 people naked on the shore of the Dead Sea in Israel to draw attention to the poor state of the sea.
Tunick has also visited Finland. 1,900 people took off their clothes for his pictures at the Helsinki Market Square in 2002.