"Pinking up"

Spencer Tunick has gathered hundreds of volunteers on the steps of Sydney Opera House and taken a huge photo; it was the centre spread in the Guardian recently, and the paper carried an article on his work, or rather on the fact that he takes these nude photos. It concludes that "Tunick may be repetitive but he knows his art will deliver every time because nakedness delivers every time."

The interview here starts with a summary of Tunick's career: "Spencer Tunick is an internationally known photographer and has been for more than a decade. He made his bones in the mid-nineties running around New York City staging early morning public naked photo shoots. Everything was top secret and top speed, so the shoot could be completed before the cops arrived. Now his art star status affords him more time to compose shots. Spencer has shot nudes on every continent (yes, even Antarctica)." He's photographed over 100,000 people, he says, the largest installation being 18,000 people crouched in a square in Mexico City. The big group work "is more of an abstraction like a land work or an environmental work," he says.