The New York photographer, Spencer Tunik, has recently broke his record photographing 17,000 nude Mexicans. The volunteers posed for Tunik at the Zocalo square in Mexican city posing in the fetal position. He is known to create shapes and forms with the human body and states that his work is an abstraction, a performance and an installation. In much of his work the bodies reflect the space he picks and the nakedness of the individuals in almost camouflaged.
In the past Spencer Tunik has faced arrest for his photo shoots. However outside the United States and in this case in Mexico, nudity is much more widely accepted. This shoot was about five years in the making with Mexican officials first turning down his request to set the shoot at the Teothihuacan pyramids outside the capital.
His work is unique in its own way and we personally find how big of a following he has extremely interesting.
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