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London, Mar 27 (ANI): Meet Erica Simone, a Parisian photographer who has turned doing daily routines on the streets of New York into works of art simply by removing her clothes.

Simone has been photographed in nothing but her birthday suit for a series of self-portraits taken in and around the Big Apple, reports the Daily Mail.

“At first it was like, ‘Can I really do this?’ I was into the idea, but I didn’t totally have the [nerve] to do it - I’m not totally an exhibitionist,” said the 25-year-old shutterbug.

“But I managed to do it on my first day of shooting in the West Village and I didn’t even get arrested. I think that was just a combination of good timing and luck, and it is not as if I just spent the whole day walking around naked. I was fully clothed until I was ready to take the shot,” she said.

“It’s not about sex. It’s crazy that it’s illegal to be naked. The whole process was really liberating and it made me feel freer and more comfortable in my own skin and not be ashamed of my body,” she added.

In the pictures, Simone rides the subway, checks out library books and shovels the snow on the sidewalk outside her apartment - all in the nude.

The 20 shots are part of her new exhibit ‘Nue York: Self-Portraits of a Bare Urban Citizen’, which opens next month at the Dash Gallery in Tribeca.

Simone said the inspiration for the exhibition came to her during Fashion Week two years ago.

She also said she was not sure if she herself could go through with it but was intrigued by the challenge of staging the shots - which she took using a remote sensor - and stripping down to her birthday suit.

She said the general public were very accepting of her nudity and she did not have any bad experiences while doing it. (ANI)