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Wao! Artist gets hundreds of models to pose naked next to Dead Sea, drawing attention to climate crisis

Hundreds of people wearing only white body paint have walked across a stark desert expanse near the Dead Sea, part of the latest photography project of American artist Spencer Tunick, Guardian reports.

Seb learnt that over 200 people covered only in white body paint modelled for Tunick as volunteers of ages between 18 and 70. They had lined up across the desert near the Dead Sea in rows of 10 on Sunday and awaited instructions from the artist, who was perched on a ladder with a megaphone and a camera.

The 54-year-old photographer visited the spot in southern Israel as a guest of the tourism ministry to portray for the third time the shrinking Dead Sea via nude subjects.

 “For me the body represents beauty and life and love,” said Tunick.

 Tunick depicted more than 1,000 nude models a decade ago on the shores of the salty Dead Sea, which is receding by about a metre a year.

See the video below, curtesy of the Guardian:

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