A series of portraits exploring the many ways of inhabiting masculinity through the body, expression, and vulnerability.
Born from a personal and collective search to represent men beyond rigidity, expectations, and imposed poses.

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The series offers a visual space where silence is not emptiness, but possibility — a place where the male body can exist without armor, without correction, without the need to meet an ideal. Where it can simply be.

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To portray men in stillness, in motion, in pause or contradiction, is also to question the models we grew up with. I was raised among men who spoke through silence, and I learned — almost unconsciously — to read their gestures, to hold their quiet, to sense what was left unsaid. This project is a way to return to them (and to myself) that lost language: the freedom to express without fear of breaking.

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Each image is a contained conversation, an emotional opening — a portrait stripped of both technical and emotional filters. No retouching, no masks. Only the willingness to observe and be observed, in a shared present.

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Quiet Masculinities is also a return to my beginnings as a photographer: when I photographed my friends by pure instinct, guided by the tones of family albums, chasing the diffuse beauty of memory. Today, that same impulse returns — more conscious, more free.

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A visual archive that honors softness, doubt, exposure, and everything rarely associated with what we call “masculine.”