Last but not least: "Naked Sea" campaign
U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick, known for his projects featuring naked crowds, gathered a thousand people for his latest project to take nude photographs. The photos were taken on the Israeli shore of the Dead Sea.
The "Naked Sea Project" is part of a campaign to have the Dead Sea recognized as a natural wonder of the world. Votes can be cast online on November 11. The Dead Sea is 417 meters below sea level, making it the lowest point in the world. Due to the use of water from the Jordan River to irrigate farmland, the level of the Dead Sea has been falling for years.
Unless urgent action is taken, it could disappear completely by 2050.
The participants in the project were aged between 18 and 77 and were predominantly male. This was reported by the Jerusalem Post newspaper at the weekend, according to SDA. The volunteers came together on a beach for the photo project. It had already caused criticism in Israel in the run-up to the event. Orthodox rabbis and politicians warned of "Sodom and Gomorrah" and threatened to take legal action to prevent the project. The Jewish artist commented on this to the media: "Whether his projects are accepted shows the degree of openness and tolerance of a country. If a country allows nude art, it proves to be open, progressive and committed.
In recent years, Spencer Tunick has already gathered thousands of naked people for his "body landscapes" for projects in Sydney, New York, London, Barcelona and Vienna, as well as on the Aletsch Glacier. He photographed the largest nude crowd to date with 18,000 volunteers in
Mexico City.
