Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor Hold Queer Sweetness in Ruven Afanador’s Portraits

There is something quietly devastating about seeing Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor together in Ruven Afanador’s promotional photography for The History of Sound. It is not just that they look beautiful, though of course they do. It is that Afanador’s lens seems to hold them in a delicate pause, a moment between desire and loss...