Paul Grund - Damaged _alt_Jean-Vincent Simonet – Of Voices And Herbs from the exuberant youth of

from the exuberant youth of Bamako's dancehalls to the self-assured subjects in his studio

director of the Italian company Ferrino

or Italian drizzle softly falling beneath an umbrella in a Roman garden

a photography center in the Region Of Hauts de France

which is arranged as a kind of family album: intimate

Paul Grund - Damaged _alt_Jean-Vincent Simonet – Of Voices And Herbs from the exuberant youth ofIn Damaged, Paul Grund turns his lens toward Los Angeles, not as the dream factory or cinematic backdrop, but as a city already destroyed. Echoing photographer Lewis Baltz's bleak observation that Los Angeles "has already been destroyed, then left standing as a warning," the work resists the smooth mythology that usually defines it. Grund's camera moves through a fractured landscape of walls, overpasses, and indifferent geometry, exposing a city built