The Strip celebrates Sydney’s biggest ever New Mardi Gras Parade and pays homage to Spencer Tunick, famous photographer of nude crowds at the Opera House. Wearing rainbow beads and carrying milk crates, Sydney’s New Mardi Gras Parade drew thousands of gay and straight supporters onto the street for the biggest parade ever.
Spectators enjoyed the show as almost 10,000 participants on 135 floats made their way up the pink mile.
Paying homage to gays and lesbians throughout the history of the world, floats featuring ancient Egyptians, Marie Antoinettes, and many George Michael impersonators made their way up Oxford St before the cheering crowds.
Spencer Tunick: The shock of the nude For decades Spencer Tunick has been photographing mass nudes in various locations. And the pictures are as gripping as ever. American artist Tunick has been posing and photographing massed voluntary nudes since the 1990s, celebrating the honesty, community and vulnerability of a crowd of ordinary people, with ordinary bodies, stripping together. His fame derives from a bizarre cocktail of nudity and the picturesque – where will he stage his next epic? Recent events have taken place on a glacier and a chilly Irish shore. But his images are most memorable when you don't recognise the landmark, so the picture shifts from tourism to a mass of flesh enclosed by some unrecognised courtyard. Sydney Opera House is his latest. We were there.