06/08/2026
In honor of Pride Month 🏳️🌈 we're sharing this beautiful image by Gail Albert Halaban, photographed on Fire Island, home to Cherry Grove and Fire Island Pines, two adjacent hamlets that together form one of the oldest LGBTQ+ communities in the U.S., gathering here for decades before the 1960s Stonewall Uprising.
Gail's neighbors, Drew and David, invited her to photograph their house on the island, and it poured the entire weekend. She was sure she couldn't make it work, but the veil of rain only adds to the mystery. "When people invite me to their homes, I am always so grateful," she says. "It pushes me to make a photograph different from anything I would have imagined. Collaboration is key."
For David, the house is part of a longer story. He's been coming to Fire Island for 40 years, first sharing a rented house with friends who became a chosen family that endures to this day. A lover of mid-century design, he sees a natural harmony in bringing that aesthetic to a community built in the '50s and '60s — its early homes made from local cedar, some still held by the same families nearly 75 years on.
Head to the link below for more information ⬇️
https://www.jacksonfineart.com/artists/gail-albert-halaban/veil-of-rain-fire-island-2025/
📸: Gail Albert Halaban, "Veil of Rain, Fire Island", 2025