18,000 Nude People Were Photographed in Mexico's Capital by Spencer Tunick!

Some people may have heard of Spencer Tunick, or at least his photographs of countless naked people in public spaces. I remember I first heard of him when my friend showed me a picture that Spencer Tunick took of her along with other people in the nude a few years ago. So far, Tunick has photographed nude people in US states such as New York, Buffalo, Ohio, Nevada, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania. He also has photographed nude people from cities in Argentina, Australia, Chile, Finland, Portugal, Spain, and the U.K. Tunick's work is so well-known to the point where thousands of people will volunteer to strip down to nothing and model for the photographer.

In Spencer Tunick's work, one can immediately see how Tunick tries to show the world how beautiful the human form can be, and how it should not be something that stays hidden. He also has a fantastic eye for incredible backgrounds and how to arrange the nude human bodies to compliment the background. Before Tunick's latest project, his largest record of nude people being photographed at once was 7 thousand in Barcelona. This time, on Sunday morning, May 6, 2007, he beat his record when 18,000 people showed up and laid down in various positions as requested by the photographer in Mexico City's Zocalo square. It is said that the models burst out signing Mexician songs between shots.

His work did not always focus on a large group of nude people. When Spencer Tunick first started photographing in New York. His work mostly were singular nude person[s], or a small group of individuals. His work quickly became popular and he began to travel to other sites in America to photograph people in the nude. Eventually he branched out and photographed abroad. Somewhere along the line he started to only focus on massive groups of nude people. Some recordable numbers would have to be when Tunick photographed 1,500 nudes in Caracas, 1,700 nudes in Newcastle, 1,800 nudes in Buffalo, and 2,754 people in Cleveland, Ohio. We also must not forget the 7,000 nude people that he photographed in Barcelona. Now he has clearly broke the record and more than doubled his numbers when he photographed in Mexico's capital where 18,000 nude people showed up!

If anyone is interested and wants to volunteer, there is a shooting in Amsterdam, and you can fill a form in order to volunteer. Please go to the link below to fill out a form: http://www.spencertunick.com/