Beautiful, Still. Joel Smith Bertien van Manen rolled into

Bertien van Manen rolled into photography almost by accident

and revelations

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

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

Beautiful, Still. Joel Smith Bertien van Manen rolled intoBeautiful, 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