Shot on 35mm film, this series by Anna Bilodeau documents the intimate world of muse Rachel Opert, within her treasured Lower East Side apartment — tucked into the ever-shifting creative microcosm of Dimes Square. A nest of vinyl sleeves, softened light, and an aura steeped in memory. Rachel, a New York-based DJ, collector, and curator, gravitates towards the overlooked and the forgotten: cosmic pulses, hypnotic rhythms, voices that both haunt and seduce. Her selections wander between outsider disco, synth-pop, house, dub, xian folk, jazz, new age, and new wave — moving like tides, elusive yet eternal.
Captured in the final days before her lease expired, the photographs trace a moment of transition. Soon after, she set out on a nomadic season across Mexico and Europe, carrying her stories from one city to the next. The apartment — characterized by handwritten mantras, scattered prints, esoteric books, and a big record collection — was the place where her journey as a DJ first began. Much like the photographer herself, Rachel is rooted in the tactile, in the art of analog. Against the backdrop of a world accelerating into technology and AI, this series becomes an ode to slower rhythms and simpler times.
