A black and white portrait of a man in a dark coat looking off into the distance.
Vintage-style portrait of a woman in a hat and dark clothing.
Monochrome photo of a person with a blurred visage, captured in front of a building.
Vintage-style image of a musician playing an electric guitar in a recording studio.
A black and white photograph of a young girl holding a black cat.
Vintage-style portrait of a beautiful young woman in sunglasses and a hat.
A black and white photograph of a girl leaning on a railing, overlooking a large river.
A black and white portrait of a woman with long dark hair, wearing a white shirt and a crossbody bag.
Monochrome photo of a man standing nonchalantly on a bus.
Retro portrait of a woman with long dark hair, sitting in front of a window.
Retro photo of a photographer holding a cigarette and camera, in front of a clock tower.

With an Olympus Pen S and a devotion to lith printing, Panaef conjures images that feel intimate yet elusive. His subjects — fellow artists among them — are rendered with a moody, atmospheric quality that owes as much to chemistry as it does to composition. Despite the oldest of these photographs being from the early 2000s, they all effortlessly masquerade as relics from an era forgotten.

See more of his work on Flickr.