Deep State 88

"Deep State 88" is a collection of 88 of Andrew Benjamin Colvin's color photographs taken between 1988 and 2018. Colvin, one of the original Austin bohemians depicted in Richard Linklater's film, "Slacker," was an early proponent of "street art," performance art, and spoken word.

At the University of Texas art department (where he succeeded the now-famous Ron English as the photography teaching assistant), Colvin experimented with simple "toy" cameras, and eventually worked his way through most of the photographic formats, including 35mm, medium format, and 8x10 film cameras. He then went on to try many types of digital cameras, from the iPhone to today's full-frame mirrorless types.

All of Colvin's pictures are "straight," meaning they have not been manipulated or "photoshopped" beyond simple contrast or color adjustments. Colvin has worked or studied with photographers such as Robert Frank, David Lynch, Lee Friedlander, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Dennis Hopper, and his work reflects their influence.