Paris Underground: The dark side of the city of light

＂Photographer Alain Bali’s dangerous, evocative and erotic work reflects time spent in Beirut, Paris, Tokyo and LA. Utilizing both black and white and color, photographic artist Alain Bali captures the anticipation and aftermath of destruction, using classical photographic equipment and formats, enhanced by digital retouching techniques. Many images document the anarchistic impulses of the punk music era, as well as the ruin of war. A sense of danger and surreal dread permeates Bali’s work, whether creating portraits of veiled Lebanese women processing local hashish on a concrete floor, a rare glimpse into the secretive world of hash makers of the central Valley or posing ＂MADMEN＂. Welcome to the underbelly of the Hollywood dream, channeling nudes around a supernaturally turquoise swimming pool, where even the sunlight seems subterranean.＂