Dear Love encapsulates Bahbah’s work in gut-wrenching poetic fashion. It is broken up into four main chapters: “Dear Heart,” “Dear Darkness,” “Dear Light,” and “Dear Love,” which she says are based on the human experience and follow the same journey all of her protagonists do. “Dear Heart” represents Bahbah’s coming-of-age years and features her early projects The Wild Ones and Sex and Takeout. “I was so young, and I was falling in and out of love constantly, at least what I thought was love,” Bahbah shares. As you move into “Dear Darkness,” the work gets moodier and more meaningful, a reflection of a difficult period for the artist as she entered therapy and began addressing her trauma, anxiety, and depression. “Dear Light” is the result of that process and the realization that it’s going to be okay. And finally, “Dear Love” is coming back to one’s true self and embracing all of the emotions.
“As scary as it is to have revealed so much of myself in this book, especially in the series synopsis where I break down the story behind every single photo series that I’ve done, I think it’s a risk worth taking,” Bahbah says. “I think vulnerability is a superpower, and having that to reflect on in a year from now, five years from now, 10 years from now is just going to be a really special feeling. So I did it for my younger self, and I’m doing it for my future self.”
The self-funded, self-published book is available on Bahbah’s website via a sliding-scale price format, a “pay what you can” initiative she adopted in 2020 in an effort to make her work more accessible to fans.
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