The Silent Landscape project proposes a reflection on urban space and its perception by the individual, using photography as a tool for investigation, discovery, and documentation.

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The proposed challenge is to reflect on the interaction, sometimes harmonious, sometimes chaotic, between the individual and the urban environment, seeking ambiguous situations where the image's referent loses importance in the face of a new proposed resignification. In other words, we will seek to isolate objects or situations from the context in which they are inserted. This focus creates new possibilities for reading and perceiving these objects. Capturing and transforming this newly emerged meaning into images will be the focus of this project.

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We are bombarded every day by hundreds of generic photographs from stock images. They are so ubiquitous that they have become part of the landscape that we distractedly no longer notice them.

Photography is not simply a "mirror of reality," as common sense assumes. It is a "text" like so many others, constructed by the articulation of its constituent elements. The content of an image can be manipulated in both a newspaper article and an academic thesis.

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Critical thinking is essential. This doesn't mean there isn't a "truth" the photographer wants to communicate to us, but this communication can only be understood within a cultural context, like any language.

Out of context, objects and events become ambiguous. Even the most banal becomes shrouded in mystery, leaving only small clues that won't lead us to people or places, but instead create bridges in our imagination.

Conceiving contemporary photography as a negation of the documentary tradition where new meanings are created, the "Silent Landscape" project uses photography as a tool for investigation and discovery of the urban ecosystem, seeking to reframe the ordinary in extraordinary objects or moments.