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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation with Jonesy and land Well. This

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Speaker 1: Saturday morning sunrise at Bondai Beach is going to look

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Speaker 1: a little different. Over two thousand people will be stripping

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Speaker 1: off and getting photographed in the name of skin cancer research.

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Speaker 1: The man behind the lens is with us now, a

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Speaker 1: world renowned photographer and contemporary artist, Spencer Tunic.

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Speaker 2: Hello, how are you.

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Speaker 1: We're really well, it's so nice to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: We've been talking about this all morning. One of our producers, Kate,

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Speaker 1: is going to be joining you on Saturday. I was

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Speaker 1: intrigued to hear that no one can just buy the pictures.

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Speaker 1: You have to be in the experience to be able

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Speaker 1: to have the photograph.

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Speaker 2: Everyone who participates. It's been my tradition for the organization

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Speaker 2: commissioning me to give them a photograph in exchange for participating,

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Speaker 2: so everyone gets something they can hang in their bathrooms,

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Speaker 2: hopefully not in the main room, of course, we don't

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Speaker 2: want to fand the guests.

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Speaker 1: What kind of stories have people told you over the

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Speaker 1: years about what that experience has meant to them, had

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Speaker 1: couples that have made it at these experiences? What have

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Speaker 1: you heard?

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Speaker 2: Yes, there are children because of my naked works. You know,

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Speaker 2: of course they weren't conceived at my work, but yes,

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Speaker 2: they're like anything that's a group events. There are people

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Speaker 2: that are meet but you know, you get to meet

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Speaker 2: someone and see what they're like house I first I

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Speaker 2: guess and then decide, you know, if you're going to

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Speaker 2: continue that relationship based on personality.

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Speaker 3: How did you get started doing this?

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Speaker 2: I when I was in college, I took a photography

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Speaker 2: class and I just fell in love with the medium.

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Speaker 2: And before you knew it, I had a girlfriend that

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Speaker 2: was willing to pose for me, and I took some

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Speaker 2: very nice photographs of her in front of some radiator

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Speaker 2: with like coming black and white was like coming through

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Speaker 2: the window. And so I'm just lucky to have someone

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Speaker 2: that believed in my work early on, that was comfortable

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Speaker 2: with their body.

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Speaker 3: And then did you say, honey, why don't we get

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Speaker 3: some more people in on this? Was it like that?

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Speaker 2: Okay? Then I moved to New York and went to

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Speaker 2: the International Center of Photography and decided that I liked

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Speaker 2: artists that work with performance and documented their performances with photography,

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Speaker 2: like Ka Lei Shneman and Yayo Kusama, and so I

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Speaker 2: sort of really got into their work and decided, well,

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Speaker 2: maybe I'll hit the streets of New York and photographed

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Speaker 2: people in public spaces.

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Speaker 1: Because one of the things we're also talking about today

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Speaker 1: is it in our culture we don't see other naked

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Speaker 1: bodies unless it's in a sexual or pornographic context. We'd

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Speaker 1: be much healthier about our own body image if we

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Speaker 1: saw more nude bodies, I think, right.

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Speaker 2: I always think that it's important to have a presence

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Speaker 2: of the body in art as opposed to not so

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Speaker 2: much for pornography. Associating the nude art with putting it

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Speaker 2: in that pocket is difficult for artists to really survive,

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Speaker 2: especially like on social media platforms like Instagram and which

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Speaker 2: treat they treat nude art photography as pornography.

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Speaker 3: They do too.

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Speaker 1: How does the day work? All the logistics? Do you

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Speaker 1: have a big loudhailer and you go, hey, are you

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Speaker 1: third to the left? No, not you, the person behind you?

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Speaker 1: How do you wrangle it all?

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Speaker 2: Well, the most big difficult place to work is on

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Speaker 2: a beach because the surf. You forget that the surf

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Speaker 2: is so loud, and so we try to get people

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Speaker 2: to follow what people are doing in front of them.

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Speaker 2: And because if you can't hear me that that's the

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Speaker 2: most important thing to do. So if someone decide to

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Speaker 2: near me, decide to lie on their back looking up

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Speaker 2: into the the sky with their hands by their side,

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Speaker 2: if you see that person doing that, that's what you

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Speaker 2: should be doing.

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Speaker 1: Right. So they're all getting it right.

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Speaker 3: You need a mega fine, don't you.

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Speaker 2: It sounds a on a megaphone, but those don't always work,

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Speaker 2: you know on the beach with like twenty foot waves.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I know you're doing it very early in

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Speaker 1: the morning. Is this to stop any you know, unsavory

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Speaker 3: Have a look?

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Speaker 2: Right? It's it's a crowded beach in the afternoon. So

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Speaker 2: I like to not have too many distractions, and so

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Speaker 2: we try to work as early as possible, even before

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Speaker 2: the sun comes up over the horizons. With these new

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Speaker 2: digital cameras can capture a lot of light, and so

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Speaker 2: we take advantage of that.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if there's any people who then go to

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Speaker 1: leave and someone's taken their clothes and you have how

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Speaker 1: do you get home?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Does that work?

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Speaker 1: Still?

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Speaker 2: No one's ever taken anyone's clothes, but one person in

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Speaker 2: the media once couldn't find their clothing.

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Speaker 3: Oh God, sounds like a man, I've lost my clothes again.

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Speaker 2: What a shame?

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Speaker 3: Well, Spencer, this is this is great strip off of

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Speaker 3: skin Cancer with Spencer Tuny. Register at Spencer tune dot com.

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Speaker 3: I dare say, a bondo, bitch. You're not going to

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Speaker 3: have many people. There's not a lot of there's a

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Speaker 3: lot of look at.

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Speaker 2: Me people there, so we need we definitely need more

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Speaker 2: people signing up. We should for an important cast.

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Speaker 3: We should get a little squad of our own people

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Speaker 3: and maybe get them in little you know, the jonesy

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Speaker 3: amount of robes that we have.

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Speaker 1: Actually, that's exactly what we should do. We will recruit

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Speaker 1: some people for you. Because you have to register, don't.

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Speaker 1: You can't just turn up and be in.

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Speaker 2: It, right, You should register. It's really quick and you'll

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Speaker 2: get an email right back with all the instructions of

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Speaker 2: what to bring and what not to bring. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's really a simple registration and.

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Speaker 3: Don't forget your camera.

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Speaker 1: Don't forget your camera. And body hair is allowed and encouraged.

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Speaker 2: Yes, the more the better.

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Speaker 3: I'm a great want to be about Spencer Tunic.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, Spencer.

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Speaker 2: Well, all right, Thank you so much, everyone, thank you