Cities mean, above all, people. Lisbon Düsseldorf Faces exposes the idea that the essence of life is not the individual per se, but the individual as a ‘place of others’.
In 2025, the Lisbon Düsseldorf Initiative, centred on culture and the relationship between two cities - through knowledge, work between citizens, companies and institutions – presents this photography exhibition at the MNAC [PeP] Gallery and later at the Düsseldorf Stadtmuseum.
In black and white, and through the symbolic power of portraiture, two photographers from different backgrounds, Ralf Schilberg, a German portrait photographer, and Rui Soares Esteves, a Portuguese fashion photographer, have aesthetically and freely captured the substance of their own cities, Düsseldorf and Lisbon respectively. 
In a dialogue of a plural nature, they created two complementary exhibitions spots - Lisbon Faces and Düsseldorf Faces: identities and alterities; professions and communities.