200 painted, naked models descend on Dead Sea for photo shoot

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The shoot was part of a nude photo installation designed to draw world attention to the importance of preserving and restoring the Dead Sea.

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The shoot will benefit collaborator Ari Leon Fruchter’s dream of building a "Dead Sea museum" on the same location as the shoot.

"By connecting an environmental issue to the body, shows the vulnerability of the body up against nature — and also, in juxtaposition, the vulnerability of nature that's caused by the body," Tunick said. "Mankind can affect a massive sea. And I think that showing this juxtaposition of the body — very fragile — against the Dead Sea, which is equally fragile, will bring a new energy to the work and people's conversations.

The participants, all between the ages of 19 and 70, mostly hailed from Israel and included the mayor of a nearby town.

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