Hardened"These are just some of Jeff Mermelsteins pictures taken mainly on the streets of New York in the last few years. A world of everyday neurosis, minor catastrophe, panic, charm, indiscretion, revelation, fallen pride, deflated bravado, pricked narcissism, and unexpected affection. In a culture in which seemingly everything is contrived for the camera, it is heartening, and horrifying, to see what it looks like when it doesnt think it is being

and in particular

as well as destroy

Jean Genet

Edited by Marvin Heiferman

and lots and lots of mud

“Donde Estan”

and the traces we leave behind

In 2017 photographer Merlin Daleman embarked on a journey through the economic North of the UK

they tear the surface of what we believe the places ought to be

The disparate photographs assembled here were made over the course of twenty years

edited and stuck into the pages of bound volumes that are part workbook

and a clear window viewfinder for lining up your shots