Dearly Beloveds

Dearly Beloveds drifts through a realm where beauty and memory blur, conjuring figures that feel as much remembered as imagined. These portraits, styled in extravagant silhouettes and spectral makeup, evoke ghosts not as horrors, but as the quiet companions of our inner lives — the past resurfacing in flashes of dream, desire, and déjà vu. Inspired by the sensation of looking at old photographs where each image feels like a visitation. The models appear as disembodied spirits, embodiments of histories we carry inside us: the loved, the lost, the half-forgotten. Their presence is theatrical yet hauntingly tender, a reminder that ghosts are often simply emotions given shape. Created for PAN & The Dream No. 4, Dearly Beloveds meditates on how the past returns: in memories, in dream logic, in the faces we can’t quite let go. Photographed on Kodak films in New York, 2020.