STOLEN BESOS BY MAYA SPANGLER
Preserved in a breath held forever, Stolen Besos by Maya Spangler stretches the now into something eternal. Where girls exist in languor, caught between who they are and how they’re seen. Shot over three years across eight cities, the series unfolds as a visual diary of longing, rebellion, and unresolved girlhood.
Spangler photographs her subjects in intimate, often improvised spaces that echo her own upbringing. There’s a tension between softness and grit, between the curated and the accidental. Created during a period of personal estrangement and transformation, Spangler resists nostalgia by embracing dissolution — softening the edges and surrendering to fleeting moments that slip through memory. It’s a portrait of girlhood not as innocence, but as myth: tough, tender, and self-mythologizing
Published by Enter Bliss and with an introduction by Richard Kern, the book marks Spangler’s first official body of work. Edited by Raf (Ri) Patel and designed by June Lihua Yu
10.5x8 in
80 Pages
59 Images
Hard cover with dust jacket
First edition of 300
Published in 2025
ISBN 979-8-218-66745-0
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