110 Nude Women Pose for Spencer Tunick Day of the Dead Photo Shoot in San Miguel IANS/EFE
go to original October 31, 2014

'Spirit Nudes': Some 150 people took off their clothes and braved the driving rain to pose for US photographer Spencer Tunick at the 2012 Festival de Calacas (Festival of Skeletons) in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. (ITN)

SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE - As many as 110 women posed nude as a group here for US photographer Spencer Tunick, who conducted a photo shoot with the theme of Mexico's Day of the Dead.

With just a strip of flowers around their necks, women of all ages braved the chilly morning temperatures and fog Thursday covering this highland town in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato to pose en masse for Tunick.

This is the second time that the photographer has staged a photo shoot on the theme of death in San Miguel de Allende, a town he visits frequently, attracted by its colonial streets and buildings.

Early Thursday morning, the women gathered to participate in the creative project. The participants came from different cities in Mexico and the US and shed their clothing to pose on some of the streets in the historic city centre.

In the last scene of the day, Tunick instructed the women to lie down as if dead, surrounded by flowers, on one of the city streets.

The photographer rejected the suggestion that the project had anything to do with the climate of violence and insecurity prevailing in certain parts of Mexico at present, but he said that “each person can have their own interpretation”.

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