Hundreds of people posing nude on a glacier
Hundreds of people posed nude last Saturday in the Aletsch glacier in Switzerland for the photographer Spencer Tunick as part of a Greenpeace campaign to create awareness about global warming.
Tunick climbed on a ladder, and using a megaphone, directed nearly 600 volunteers from all over Europe and photographed on a glacier with the outgoing rocky bottom, which is the largest in the Alps.
After I take pictures of them standing in groups on the mass of ice and also reclining. Camera systems were ready in five different points of the glacier to take pictures.
Glaciers are sensitive to climatic changes and have been breaking down since the beginning of the industrial era, but the pace of melting has accelerated in recent years.
The environmental group Greenpeace, which organized the event, said the purpose was to "establish a symbolic relationship between the vulnerability of the melting glacier and the human body."
The Aletsch descends around the south side of the Jungfrau mountain in the Upper Rhone Valley.
Alpine glaciers have lost about a third of its length and half their volume over the past 150 years. The mass of ice has retracted Alestch only 115 meters in the past two years, said Greenpeace.
Tunick has carried out massive photographs of naked in several cities around the world, from Newcastle, England to Mexico City, where a record 18,000 people took their clothes in the main plaza of the capital in May.
In an interview with the newspaper Le Temps in Geneva, Tunick said his photographs were both works of art as political statements.
"Try to treat the body on two levels. On an abstract level, as if they were flowers or stones. And in a more social level, to represent their vulnerability and humanity in their relationship with nature and the city, and also to remind people of where they come. "
Switzerland has about 1,800 glaciers and most of them are melting.
Greenpeace said if global warming continues without a fight, most of the glaciers will disappear from the earth by the year 2080.
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