Spencer Tunick seeking participants for new Brisbane nude installation

New York-based photographer and artist Spencer Tunick is set to return to Australia on Saturday 18 November to capture a series of photographic installations as part of the Brisbane’s LGBTQIA+ arts and culture festival, MELT.

Tunick has been documenting the live nude figure in public with photography and video since 1992, boldly using bare bodies en masse to create landscapes that flow, contort and meld together. 

To date, he has photographed people atop a melting Swiss glacier, blanketing Times Square, and in front of Sydney's Opera House.  

The upcoming photographic series, titled TIDE, will celebrate diversity, equity and inclusion along with the unique landscape of the Brisbane River.

“I love Australia and Australian people.Being able to create works in a new city in the context of an event celebrating LGBTQIA+ arts and culture is a real honour,” says Tunick.

“TIDE will hopefully speak to diverse groups of people, and everyone navigating their way through the difficult challenges of our current world.  It is a privilege to be making art that centres around the LGBTQIA+ community with all its beauty and vibrance.”

Tunick is seeking adventurous participants from the community to take part in the photographs. 

More information can be found at brisbanepowerhouse.org