Last Saturday, the world-famous American photographer Spencer Tunick (56) organized an installation in the Finnish city of Kuopio, in which hundreds of completely naked people took part.
The scandalous photos were taken on Saturday at about three in the morning. A large crowd of people gathered in Kuopio to participate in this unusual production. Photographer Spencer Tunick, who orchestrated the spectacle, last shot in Finland 21 years ago. Now he again gathered a large number of people of different ages.
People stood in the middle of the street, barefoot and naked, and Tunick directed their movements through a loudspeaker, after which the participants in the photo shoot took different poses and made all kinds of figures. Tunick’s goal was to show how naked people can harmonize with their surroundings.
In the world, the work of a photographer is very ambiguous. Some admire and constantly follow the work, while others are indignant and call for a boycott of the exhibition. For example, the authorities of South Korea and Taiwan banned the exhibition of his work in museums, as they considered the photographs too provocative.
“The Finns were surprisingly natural when they undressed. They undressed without any feeling of embarrassment,” Tunick said of the shoot in Kuopio.
Ilta-Sanomate asked the photographer if anyone behaved obscenely during filming. “Never. We make it clear right away that any inappropriate behavior is unacceptable,” Tunick said, adding that each member signs a special contract before filming.
One of the participants in the installation was 44-year-old Jussi Rissanen, who already took part in a similar photo shoot for Tunick 21 years ago. According to the man, he really likes the work of the master. “They are very body-positive,” he says, adding that he feels absolutely comfortable in the nude. Rissanen says that he even went naked to a nightclub with his girlfriend. It was a series of parties where you had to take off your clothes and leave her in the wardrobe to get into the establishment.
Another participant in the installation, 38-year-old Klaara Kemppainen, said that during the photo shoot she noticed a woman in front of her who was clearly uncomfortable. But the problem was not embarrassment at all, but the ants that crawled over her body. “I tried to help her and scare them away. It was all a lot of fun, of course,” Kemppainen recalls.