How to Walk Around Naked in NYC and Not Get in Trouble
March 23, 2015 | Liam Mathews
Photographer Erica Simone’s “Nue York” series, where she snaps nude photos of herself guerilla-style doing ordinary stuff around the city, is being published as a book. She’s been doing this for a while (ANIMAL talked to her back in 2011) and published additional photos two years later, but now, to promote the release of the book, Nobo Feed caught up with her about how she does it. Spoiler alert: She wears a raincoat with nothing under it and when the coast looks clear, she loses the coat. Apart from the corny host, it’s actually an entertaining video and doubles as a quintessential instructional on how to flash in public without getting arrested.
Erica Simone created quite a stir in 2011 with her "Nue York: Self-Portraits of a Bare Urban Citizen" photo series that featured her doing every day things around the city while posing completely nude. And apparently it's not over yet. "To celebrate two more years of a work in progress…
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