Ben Z Mund Photography

I love this shot of . Our (great) crew was running around free reign in the Venice Beach neighborhood this day because the country supervisor who was tasked in policing us decided to stay home and practice lines or play xbox or something. This for some reason gave us what felt like a free ticket to just go anywhere and find fun locations. This particular backdrop was just a man’s home who afterwords came out to chat about living in that space for 30+ years and all the filming he’s seen. He even offered us use of his bathroom. What a neighborly guy.

Anyone know this wall down on Venice beach? A little history: this wall is totally legal to spray paint so it has hundreds of layers over the years. When I shot this we had to have a park monitor there supervising the team- she was telling me that under all these layers of paint is there original advertisement from the 50’s i think. Well one well it got so hot in LA that the entire outer layers of paint peeled off to expose the original ad. Maybe a soap ad? Someone tell me if I’m right. Anyway this thick slab of hundreds of layers of spray paint was just laying there until artists grabbed it up and made jewelry from it. I would have loved to see some, it must have been super colorful. Funny to think about all the tags, quotes etc that now live forever on someone’s earlobes 😂
Thanks to an amazing team on this series. The model is no longer on ig so i won’t name her.