The sound of silence

Photographer

João Coelho

Category

Editorial Photography - Documentary

Company

Submission Group

Amateur

Year

2025

Country / Region:

Portugal

No, she's not comfortably listening to her favorite songs. What at first glance looks like headphones is just an old cloth headband she found in the dump and wears proudly together with a couple of plastic necklaces. She doesn't even know what those shiny discs she found in the smoking garbage are for. She doesn't know that they probably contain melodies that would make her dream or simply bits of information that would show her that there is a completely different world to the one she lives in. Here, in her world, the only sound she can hear is the sound of silence, interspersed with the buzzing of flies and the crackling of fires