Andrea Garuti: Views

Photographer Andrea Garuti has worked in fashion and advertising in her native Italy, but it's contemporary city landscapes that capture her heart as an artist. A visible enchantment with their combination of architecture, signage and faces, of crowds and loners, intensifies these grainy, low-color studies from major cosmopolitan cities around the world. In Moscow, she captures a harried woman rushing along an oversized concrete sidewalk, shading her eyes with a pamphlet; in Hong Kong, a super sci-fi-seeming urban landscape. In Paris, Garuti catches a businessman crossing the street with his briefcase carried gingerly in front of him. In Shanghai, it's a gleaming, impenetrable corporate park.