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He is silent by nature and because silence is a condition for what he does: operating, photographing, observing.
In his youth, he could work in cafés, amid the buzz of conversations and the clatter of cups. Today, his work demands stillness. It is in silence that he finds the rhythm of things, the invisible pulse of landscapes.
He seeks out remote destinations and sparsely inhabited spaces, the silence of Ingmar Bergman and Béla Tarr, the silence of plains, deserts, churches, and cemeteries… perhaps even the silence of uninhabited planets.
His images rarely show human presence, yet in all of them there are traces of it. Silence, after all, is not absence: it is contained presence, suspended breath.
“Rhythm of silence” is a journey to the sound of what cannot be heard, a portrait of humanity through its very absence.

An exhibition edited by António Júlio Duarte and curated by Estefânia r.