In the Shadow of Silence is not a collection of images.
It is a confrontation.

Photography and poetry merge in what Ivan calls the poetic act in the abstract, a language of body, vulnerability, memory and desire. The body does not appear as an object, but as a landscape: marked by time, shaped by longing, burdened by expectation.

In four chapters – Existence, Identity, Love and Myth – this book explores the illusion of time, the architecture of masks, the violence of silence and the fragile border between freedom and control.

These images are not looking for perfection.
They are looking for truth.

Nudity is not a provocation here.
It is the origin.
It is exposure without protection.

No consolation.
Only knowledge.

ISBN: 978-3-9827155-0-6