Beautiful, Still. Joel Smith the arrogance and illusion of

the arrogance and illusion of immunity falters

evoking the unique worlds suspended between dreams and reality that define childhood

Archipelago is a journey into an interior

to create a unique log of fifteen days under siege

Bertien van Manen rolled into photography almost by accident

Beautiful, Still. Joel Smith the arrogance and illusion ofBeautiful, Still. is the first monograph from photographer Colby Deal, documenting the people, objects, and environments of everyday life in the Third Ward neighbourhood in Houston, Texas, where the artist grew up. In this ongoing project, currently consisting of over a thousand negatives, Deal sets out to provide a visual record of overlooked communities and the cultural characteristics gradually being erased by gentrification, as well as a depiction