200 Nudes Pose at Dead Sea for Photographer Spencer Tunick

Renowned American photographer Spencer Tunick photographed 200 nude models at and near the Dead Sea in Israel. The male and female volunteer models were painted white, which the artist said was meant to represent the pillar of salt from the biblical story of Sodom, in which the wife of Lot, Abraham’s nephew, looks back on the destruction of the city and is punished by being turned into a pillar of salt.

It is the third time that Tunick has created an installation about the Dead Sea, which is receding and leaving environmental problems in its wake.

The project was undertaken in cooperation with the Tourism Ministry, the Arad Municipality and the Dead Sea Revival Project. It will support the creation of a Dead Sea Museum in the nearby city of Arad.