Stolen Besos is the photographic world of Maya Spangler (b. 1999, Los Angeles). Maya is a photographer and director based between Los Angeles and New York.
Spangler’s debut book, Stolen Besos, published by Enter Bliss with an introduction by Richard Kern, marks Spangler’s first official body of work.
SELECTED CLIENTS
Adidas Originals, Balenciaga, Charli XCX, Christina Aguilera (Portola Festival), Gimaguas, Harper's Bazaar, Instagram Meta, Interview Magazine, Jean Paul Gaultier, Karol G, Loewe, Marc Jacobs, Nike, Pitchfork, Purple Magazine, Sandy Liang, Skims, Tory Burch
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Interview Magazine, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Dazed, Purple Magazine, Pitchfork, Highsnobiety, Rollacoaster, Glamcult, Office Magazine, MAPS Korea, Schön!, Paper Magazine, King Kong Magazine, Kerrang!, Flaunt Magazine
PRESS & FEATURES
HENI — Maya Spangler Artist Profile 2025
DNA Magazine — Girl to Know: Maya Spangler
PI.FYI — Maya Spangler
Dazed — Inside Maya Spangler's Dreamily Haunting Debut Photo Book
Purple Magazine — Maya Spangler Releases Her First Photo Book "Stolen Besos"
Flaunt Magazine — Stolen Besos' Debut Photobook
To Be Magazine — Interview Profile 2025
Dazed — Stolenbesos: the photographer defining the "dissociative pout" aesthetic
Cultured — Maya Spangler Wants To Build Worlds With Her Photography, Ones Where Girls Are Unflinching
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026
Felix Art Fair, Room #119, One Trick Pony, Los Angeles, CA
2025
The Flesh That Says Yes (duo exhibition with Lucia Farrow), One Trick Pony, Los Angeles, CA
2025
This Heaven Has Bars (curated by Untitled Halo), Obey Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2025
Stolen Besos, SADE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2025
Read the Room, Campus x Opus.78, New York, NY
2024
Obsidian Upset, Des Bains, London, UK
2024
KIDZ PARIS Group Show, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris
2023
Entropy Exhibition, Paris