MANCHESTER, UK – Five hundred people got naked in the frigid air of an early Manchester morning this past Sunday. They posed for the lens of celebrated nude photographer Spencer Tunick. Four thousand had applied to participate originally, but this wasn’t about quantity as in many of Tunick’s past shoots which sometimes involved over ten thousand nude volunteer models.
Tunick was commissioned by the Lowry art museum in Salford, near Manchester, which is named after the famous local artist L. S. Lowry, in an effort to raise funds for the non-profit institution. The project called for Tunick to snap photos whose composition would be reminiscent of Lowry’s trademark work, which portrayed ordinary people going about about their ordinary lives. In this case, the subjects weren’t so ordinary for their nakedness, not a typical situation in Manchester!
One rule in a Tunick shoot is that volunteers must not have visible tattoos or they must be placed far in the back of the scene. Eyeglasses must be removed as well, the photographer wanting his subjects to appear as natural as possible. Tunick had wanted to use the Manchester United football stadium as a backdrop for one of the four installments of this shoot, but the team refused to permit it, citing fears that so many people would damage the field.
Sample photos of the shoot here.
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I love Spencer Tunick’s work. My husband and I would love to be in one of his photos. What a dream come true that would be.
I live near to Manchester and applied to be one of the 2010 shoot. I was unable to attend due to it being massively oversubscribed!