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Originally Posted by thelighterthief
My wife and I did the spencer tunick shoot in salford years ago. there were 500 people on the shoot + assistants and a couple of bystanders as it was a public place.
I also got to see a friend of my wife (who I met for the first time in the meeting place for the shoot in the dark - the next time I see her is naked. It's a really weird feeling knowing that the people you are chatting to are all going to be naked.
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We did the same at a different city, but I didn't see anyone I knew. None of my friends would have been crazy enough to do it, although my wife did recognise one guy from our local gym.
Yes, the long wait to take our clothes off was surreal. My wife was reassuring an Asian girl, who was absolutely terrified at the prospect of stripping off in public, that everything would be fine.
Another strange part was walking past a group of clothed people outside a hotel with their luggage waiting for their taxis or whatever. Still half asleep, they stared in wide eyed incredulity at the never ending troop of over a thousand naked people walking past. Then there was trying to hide behind other people as we walked past some TV cameras. The wierdest by far was passing a large group of grinning policemen.
We took some friends to the exhibition of the photographs. A crowd of strangers overheard my wife talking about the shoot. They said to her "you didn't get naked did you?". As she answered yes, they treated her like some kind of celebrity expecting her to stay there for ages so they could bombard her with questions about what it was like.
On the day, we'd hidden at the back of the crowd. When the photos were exhibited we could hardly be seen and both wished we'd been more up front so we'd featured more prominently. I think our friends were disappointed about this too. They did get to see my wife in all her glory a few years later when she posed solo, but that's another story.