Mass Nude Photoshoot at Swiss Glacier.
August 18th 2007
Picture from Yahoo News. Hundreds of people posed naked on Switzerland’s shrinking Aletsch glacier.
Hundreds of people posed naked on Switzerland’s shrinking Aletsch glacier on Saturday for U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick as part of a Greenpeace campaign to raise awareness of global warming.
Tunick, perched on a ladder and using a megaphone, directed nearly 600 volunteers from all over Europe and photographed them on a rocky outcrop overlooking the glacier, which is the largest in the Alps.
Later he took pictures of them standing in groups on the mass of ice and lying down. Camera crews were staged at five different points on the glacier to take photographs.
Glaciers are sensitive to climate change and have been receding since the start of the industrial age but the pace of shrinkage has accelerated in recent years.
The environmental group Greenpeace, which organized the shoot, said the aim was to “establish a symbolic relationship between the vulnerability of the melting glacier and the human body.”
This is too cool for school. Those people there must be freezing their balls off, but hats off for such noble effort. It’s sad that it’ll take nudity to capture the attention of people when it comes to the environment, but if it works, it works.
