A new book gathers 84 portraits that chart Bad Bunny from 2019 to 2025, seen by his closest collaborator, Stillz.
It starts with a feeling you cannot swipe. Bad Bunny by Stillz is a hardcover reminder that prints keep time. Across 84 portraits, arranged year by year, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio comes into view as an artist and as a person, the way only a friend can show him.
Stillz met Bad Bunny in Las Vegas as a teenager, after leaving Miami for New York. They clicked, then they kept moving. A tour invitation turned into years of shared airports, after parties, and set calls. The camera never left his bag. What began as a habit of photographing friends became an ongoing record of one of pop’s most watched shape shifters.
The pictures run from 2019 to 2025. Some are post video-wrap, styling still sharp under fluorescent lights. Others are hotel mornings and backstage lulls, hair braided or buzzed, nails pristine, jewelry catching stray light. The sequence reads like an archive built in real time. You see phases, not just looks, and how confidence settles in over seasons.
Going back through early pages, the two laugh at certain fits. The point is not perfection. It is history. There is a pause on the vampire stills from the “Baticano” video, which both rank among their best work together. Collaboration has a rhythm. These images know it.
If you follow credits, you already know Stillz as the director behind at least 23 Bad Bunny videos, plus projects with Rosalía, Rauw Alejandro, and Omar Apollo. His first feature, Barrio Triste, premieres at the Venice Film Festival, then heads to Toronto and New York. Photobooks are his way to hold a fast career still, to log the story before it blurs.
His favorite frame made the cover: Benito in San Juan with a cup midair, eyes soft, minutes before stepping into the Coliseo de Puerto Rico for his first show there. It is everyday and pivotal at once. The image carries the charge of a door about to open.
Pictures run through his latest album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos, and the book extends that thread. It does not try to tie a bow on six years. It keeps the lane clear for whatever comes next.
Where to buy: Bad Bunny by Stillz is on sale during his residency shows at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan. It is also available at the Bad Bunny pop-up inside Plaza Las Américas in San Juan. Keep an eye on leave-a-book take-a-book public libraries around Puerto Rico, where a few copies have been placed for fans to find.
