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Famous artist known for mass nude photo shoots wants volunteers for new installation

Naked volunteers, painted in blue to reflect the colors found in Marine paintings in Hull's Ferens Art Gallery, participate in US artist, Spencer Tunick's "Sea of Hull" installation in Kingston upon Hull on July 9, 2016.

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If you’ve ever wondered what posing in a massive nude photoshoot feels like, now is the chance to volunteer for an upcoming art installation with thousands of other flesh-baring participants.

American artist Spencer Tunick is seeking over 2,500 people to pose in a half-artwork, half-public health campaign installation that will coincide with Australia's National Skin Cancer Action Week.

The photographer says each volunteer will represent one of the more than 2,500 Australians who die from skin cancer every year and has partnered with Skin Check Champions, a charity that runs free skin check clinics in Australia.

"This will be a big, bold and beautiful celebration of skin. Something we all have in common," the charity's website says.

Turnick has famously used flesh to create interesting landscapes with nude bodies en masse flowing, contorting, clinging and working together, often for political and philanthropic causes.

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Tunick has organized over 100 temporary installations in iconic cities and sites around the world, including the Dead Sea, Sydney Opera House, a Swiss glacier and Mexico City’s Zocalo Plaza, with dozens, hundreds or thousands of volunteers, according to the photographer's website.

Naked volunteers pose for Tunick in the ice-cold Swiss glacier of Aletsch, the largest in the Alps, as background for an environmental campaign about global warming August 18, 2007. The campaign organized by Greenpeace was aimed at drawing attention to melting Alpine glaciers, a clear sign of global warming and man-made climate change according to the organization.

The event is set to take place on Nov. 26 in Sydney, where Tunick hosted another nude photo shoot in 2010. Only those who sign up to volunteer will be sent the exact location and details, according to the website.

You can volunteer for the installation, which is free to participate in, by signing up online.

Here's a look at some of Tunick's past nude photo shoots.

Since 1994, Spencer Tunick has organized and photographed more than 90 installations of hundreds, sometimes thousands of nude bodies in very public spaces. Among them, Mexico City, where this photo was made. So far, he's made his way through every continent and across all 50 states.

Members of the public take part in a naked installation for Tunick (left in tower) at the Big Chill festival near Ledbury in Herefordshire on August 8, 2010. Those involved were painted in body paints and shot from above to create patterns and designs for the Tunick's photographs.

Nude models directed by Tunick pose in a Bourgogne (Burgundy) vineyard near Macon, central-eastern France, on October 3, 2009, for a giant photograph during an operation with Greenpeace. The event was organized to call attention on the danger of climate change.

Naked volunteers pose for Tunick, on May 11, 2008 at Vienna's Ernst Happel stadium. Tunick sought to assemble 2008 people in a football stadium three weeks before the opening of the European football championships.

Environmental and social activists from Israel and around the world gather at the Dead Sea for a protest float against the deterioration of the sea's condition, in Israel, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. The float was led by Tunick to protest the disappearance of the beach.

Nude models pose for a photograph as Tunick's photo installation is unveiled on October 17, 2021 in Arad, Israel. Around 300 participants took part in the nude photo installation which Tunick designed to highlight the importance of preserving and restoring the Dead Sea.

People pose nude holding cut outs of nipples during a photo shoot by Tunick on June 2, 2019 in New York City. Tunick staged his photo shoot in front of the Facebook building in Manhattan to protest Facebook and Instagram's ban on showing the female nipple on their social media platforms. Tunic says that the ban hurts fine artists who use nudity in their artwork.

Participants pose as part of Tunick's nude art installation Return of the Nude on July 9, 2018 in Melbourne, Australia.

Volunteer models kneel in Mexico City’s Zocalo Plaza as they pose for Tunick on May 6, 2007. About 18,000 people participated in the shoot, smashing Tunick’s previous record of 7,000 nudes, set in 2003 in Barcelona, Spain.

Naked volunteers perfom for Tunick (out of frame) at Los Senderos Villages in San Miguel de Allende municipality, Guanajuato State, Mexico on November 4, 2012. Tunick was in Mexico for one day to make this performance commemorating the Day of the Dead.

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Camille Fine is a trending visual producer on USA TODAY's NOW team.

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