On Bondi Beach, the iconic beach of the Australian city of Sydney, 2,500 people took off their clothes for the American Spencer Tunick on Saturday morning. The well-known visual artist took photos of the crowd in various poses to draw attention to skin cancer.
Lying on their side, standing with their hands in the air or side by side with arms outstretched: from 5:30 am (local time), Tunick photographed the thousands of people shortly after sunrise for the ‘Strip Off for Skin Cancer’ art project. for skin cancer). The number of participants represents the more than 2,000 Australians who die each year from skin cancer.
Tunick is known for his photographs of naked crowds. Since 2016, he has not gathered such a large group of people as Saturday, says the daily newspaper ‘The Sydney Morning Herald’. In 2010, the American was also in the city, when he photographed five thousand people naked in front of the world-famous Opera House at dawn. In 2011 Tunick was in our country to take pictures for a special exhibition.
To be able to photograph people naked on Bondi Beach, the law had to be changed, writes the British daily ‘The Guardian’. For this one time, participants were allowed to spend naked on the beach until 10 a.m., after which they risked a fine.
The photographer, who addressed the crowd by megaphone, hopes that the art project will encourage Australians to check their skin more often. “When you work for a health-related charity, you suddenly realize your own age,” said Tunick, 55.
Bruce Fasher, 77, was one of the participants in the art project. “I’ve spent half my life in the sun and had some malignant melanomas removed from my back,” he told a reporter from the French news agency ‘AFP’. “I thought this was a good cause and love taking my clothes off at Bondi Beach.”
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