Beautiful, Still. Joel Smith 000 photographs: a body of

000 photographs: a body of vernacular work capturing over half a century of life in vivid colour

and the experience is engraved into her memory as her first reckoning with mortality

and revelations

the arrogance and illusion of immunity falters

Archipelago is a journey into an interior

Beautiful, Still. Joel Smith 000 photographs: a body 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