American art photographer Spencer Tunick and his crew work on a photo installation in the desert near the Israeli city of Arad on Sunday. Photo: Menahem Kahana / AFP
American art photographer Spencer Tunick and his crew work on a photo installation in the desert near the Israeli city of Arad on Sunday. Photo: Menahem Kahana / AFP
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Hundreds of models pose nude for photo shoot to highlight climate change near Dead Sea in Israel

  • American photographer Spencer Tunick visited Israel as a guest of the tourism ministry to portray the shrinking Dead Sea via nude subjects
  • Tunick said he chose to cover the models in white paint to evoke the Biblical story of Lot’s wife, who was said to have turned into a pillar of salt

American art photographer Spencer Tunick and his crew work on a photo installation in the desert near the Israeli city of Arad on Sunday. Photo: Menahem Kahana / AFP
American art photographer Spencer Tunick and his crew work on a photo installation in the desert near the Israeli city of Arad on Sunday. Photo: Menahem Kahana / AFP
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