Spencer Tunick

I like some of the images Spencer Tunick has created because of their awkward, rigid and freaky nature. To me the photos feel quiet uneasy in the way they are set up, especially when you have hundreds of people turning their back to the viewer making u feel like an outcast for being the only one wearing clothes.

Artist Spencer Tunick has been documenting the live nude figure in public since 1992. Since 1994 he has organized over 75 temporary site-specific installations. Individuals en masses, without their clothing, grouped together metamorphose into a new shape. The bodies extend into and upon the landscape like a substance. These grouped masses which do not underscore sexuality become abstractions that challenge or reconfigure one's views of nudity and privacy. The work also refers to the complex issue of presenting art in permanent or temporary public spaces.

That is part of the bio from his web site spencertunick.com

Sergei Larenkov

Sergei Larenkov has created a large number of these erie photos in a exhibition of here and now. The photos are set in his home town of Saint Petersburg or Leningrad as it was know during the second world war. At that time the Nazis had laid siege to the city starving it of supplies and leaving the population to suffer hunger and the cold.

He has visited the exact sites of the original photographs to take pictures of the same place at the same angle and then superimposed the two together. I really like these pictures they create such a strong vision of the past matched with the present and really hit home how hard those times must of been.