A Desire Emerging from the Shadows

With Shadow Cast, a large-format book, Pacifico Silano places a dark veil over his archive of gay erotic portraits. This approach allows him to explore the notions of desire and danger in a world filled with contradictions.

From the very first page, the scene is set: colored by a red plastic film, the torso is bare, the mustache groomed, the body posed, lascivious. A police cap firmly on his head, the man’s eyes remain in the shadows, unfathomable. Zoomed in to the poin...

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