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"We're over the moon," John Lotton, director of the Provocare
Festival of the Arts, told Reuters on Saturday.
Tunick has photographed thousands of nudes in group shots around
the globe from Bogota to Vienna. But Australian retail giant
Woolworths had refused to allow him access to a car park in the
up-market suburb of Prahran, in the nation's second-largest city
of Melbourne, as they feared it would inconvenience their
customers.
Organizers of the Chapel Street Provocare arts festival had
hoped Tunick's photo shoot would propel their event onto the
world stage.
After festival organizers agreed to move the event from busy
weekend trading hours to a quiet Monday morning, Woolworths shed
its inhibitions to allow the event to go ahead on July 9.
"It's a good outcome," a Woolworths representative said in a
statement emailed to Reuters.
Lotton said 11,000 people had registered to disrobe, with a week
still left before entries close. Many were willing to travel
thousands of miles for a chance to take part, he told Reuters
from Melbourne.
It is not known exactly how many au naturel volunteers are
needed or how Tunick will choose them, but Lotton said there
will not be enough places for all that want to participate.
"It's well and truly oversubscribed," Lotton said.
In 2007 in Mexico City, 18,000 people stripped off in the heart
of the city's Zocalo Square for Tunick, an internationally
renowned photographer from New York.
Volunteers have also posed naked in freezing temperatures on a
Swiss glacier.
(Reporting by Alison Bevege; Editing by Tom Hogue)
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