khaperay

through veils of shadow and sheer fabric, the body emerges only to retreat again, caught in the space between revelation and concealment.

light carves form from darkness, while silhouettes flicker at the edge of perception.

in pashtun folklore, khaperay are spirits who dwell at the boundaries. they are beautiful, shadowy beings who appear in liminal spaces: mountains, rivers, ruins, the edge of human sight. neither fully present nor absent, they embody desire and danger, the allure of what cannot be fully grasped.

like the khaperay, these images exist in the in-between: visible yet untouchable, present yet just out of reach. a glimpse through the veil, a contour caught in half-light then fading back into darkness.

photographer: david cohen