CLEVELAND: In Cleveland, more than 100 women stripped and posed naked with mirrors, answering a photographer’s call to blend art with politics and portray Donald Trump as unfit for the USA’s White House.
All the women gathered on the eve of the Republican National Convention, where the Donald Trump will be anointed the nominee of party for president after winning the primary race.
Spencer Tunick who is a photographer told AFP that Donald Trump is a loser after the sunrise shoot in which 130 women took part. 100 of them will be featured in the picture to be unveiled shortly before the November 8 election.
The installation took place on a property which is private not officially in sight of the arena where the convention starts on Monday. The focus of multiple groups of protesters expected to come out on streets this week.
Photographer Tunick said that the owner gave permission but in Cleveland public nudity is illegal. After the permission of the owner, it was not possible for police to intervene.
Title of this photo shoot – “Everything She Says Means Everything,”. The photo art featured women of all colors, sizes and shapes participated and they hold up mirrors toward the arena.
The website of Tunick said that the mirrors reflected the knowledge and wisdom of progressive women.
Photographer Tunick told AFP that he thought that this photo shoot was his most political shoot ever.
It is not enough to voting against Trump at the ballot box in November.
He said that I have two daughters and a wife. He also added that I can not believe the language of hate against women and minorities coming from the Republican Party.
He said that he had to do something to counter the language of hate and the idiotic thinking.
MaPo Kinnord is a 55 years old woman and she is an art professor and artist. She said that she took part in the photo shoot because she loved the work of Tunick.
Kinnord explained that to be totally naked and come out in the open and to be fearless is what we need to be.
Donald Trump who is a candidate for the President of USA, has called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States and he also said that a wall to be built on the Mexican border to keep out illegal immigrants.
Kinnord said she would never vote for Trump.
Morning Robinson who is just 18 years old, took part with her mother in the nude photo shoot. Robinson said that she wanted to do something different before going off to college that would enable her to express herself freely.
In last month in Colombia last month, Photographer Tunick convinced more than 6,000 women to bare all in Bogota becuase the war-torn country neared a peace deal with the leftist rebels of FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
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