Silence explores contemporary urban emotions like loneliness and anonymity. The book evolves in a constant dialogue between private and public situations. With portraits of intimate situations and images of urban scenes, José Pedro Cortes’s work deals with the struggle of accessing human presence in the contemporary City – a silent and layered presence hidden behind the surface of things or people; that always seems distant to the viewer. These ideas of blockade and intimacy are played together in a book structure that borrows ideas from film or literature.

ポルトガル写真の新世代を担う1人として注目され、2005年には「Photo London - Emerging Artists Presentations」に選出された、ポルトガル人フォトグラファーJose Pedro Cortesの初となる写真集。都市で暮らす若者たちを取り巻く環境、人間関係、孤独や複雑な感情を静かに切り取ったイメージを収容。
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