Everyone loves a Polaroid picture, the immediacy and materiality of it seeming to convey more feeling—and more of a sense of the real—than anything captured with our camera phones can. That, at least, is the kind of thing that people like to say. But looking through the pages of Bad Bunny by Stillz , which gathers 84 portraits of the Puerto Rican artist taken by his friend and frequent collaborator, those suggestions begin to ring true.

“I’ve always collected images of friends and family—even before I met Benito,” Stillz explains on a recent phone call. “It was not a thing he asked me to do, or anything; it was kind of this secret side project I was doing the whole time.”

The pair first met in Las Vegas, not long after the then 18-year old Colombian-American photographer and director h

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