For him, it all started when he found a Polaroid of an uncle he knew nothing about, and who turned out to be gay. The family’s determination to hide his existence made Silano explore deeper into his uncle’s past and LGBT history in general. He collects vintage gay magazines and photographs which he uses in his projects, sometimes staging his own versions of reality in a lack of material. His project Male Fantasy Icon produced a series of images with Al Parker, one of the most famous gay porn stars of the 1970s, drawing attention to a lost generation of gay men. Through his work, Silano documents life before the HIV/AIDS epidemic that took so many lives, in a period he did not live in, but is now trying to revive and re-present to the world.