Preserved in a breath held forever, Stolen Besos stretches the now into something eternal. 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, the work 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 with an introduction by Richard Kern, the book is Spangler’s first official body of work.

First edition sold out. For archive copies or to join the list for the second edition, email studio@stolenbesos.com.