Nude Israelis float in Dead Sea for Spencer Tunick

A thousand nude Israelis floated in the Dead Sea for a photo shoot by Spencer Tunick, that well-known flesh-snapper. Mr Tunick is renowned for taking nude pics of people at famous landmarks and has previously photographed across Europe, the US and Australia.

His latest endeavour was intended to draw attention to the plight of the Red Sea, the water level of which is dropping nearly four feet a year.

The photographer was able to convince a thousand people to strip down to nothing and then float on the famously salty lake.
The group, aged from 18 to 77 years old, then posed for a series of shots.

Mr Tunick timed the entry of the swimmers so he could make sure they didn't enter the water until sunrise, making for the best possible pictures.

The photographer feels the work he does is important but does not consider himself a pioneer.
Mr Tunick said: 'It was a dream of mine to do that work. It's because I felt that as the water level is dropping, people have to stay on top of the land and soon they won't be to enter the water anymore because there will be no water.'

Not everything went to plan though, with curious locals disrupting the photo shoot as they came to observe. Some even flew planes over the top of the group.

In the end everything turned out OK and Tunick hoped the world would sit up and take notice.
'Hopefully my work with this will be associated with the human-made natural disaster at hand, and not with war,' he added.

The photographer's most impressive work to date was probably a shoot in Mexico City in 2007 involving 18,000 people.

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