The Reflection in the Pool is Shane Rocheleau's second monograph, made between Richmond, Virginia, and the wider Mid-Atlantic United States, between the late twenty-tens and the start of the twenties. Drawing on Levinas's idea that 'my relationship with the Other as neighbour gives meaning to my relations with all others', Rocheleau writes: 'It is still too common that I reflexively look away from homeless people. Conversely, it is human and vulnerable to hold their gaze and to consider that they are people with histories, loves and losses. In looking away, I make of the homeless a repellent, abject or cautionary presence—someone or something unworthy of consideration and empathy. In engaging their gaze and responding to their specificity, we seek to understand the homeless as equals, as subjects filled with complicated, tragic and joyful life experiences, possessed of narrative and creativity, consciousness and desire. Our abjection—or objectification—of the homeless person breeds intolerance and apathy, even violence, and enables this soluble social evil to persist.' The book is built from sustained encounters with subjects who become collaborators, in a register of dignity and acknowledged complexity.