Silence explores contemporary urban emotions such as loneliness and anonymity. It evolves in a constant dialogue between private and public situations. With portraits of intimate moments and views of urban scenes, José Pedro Cortes' 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 structure that borrows from film and from literature. It is the author's debut.