Chu Ming Silveira arrived in Brazil in 1950. In 1972, her design became widely integrated into the Brazilian urban landscape: the public telephone booth known as Orelhão.

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In 2019, a federal law ended the obligation to install and maintain public telephones in the country, marking the gradual disappearance of this communication infrastructure.

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The project Ligações Perdidas began in March 2018, when it was still possible to find numerous deactivated telephone booths scattered across Belo Horizonte, often reduced to their metal structure.

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The final photograph of the series was taken in mid-2020. By then, the telephone booths included in the series — as well as most of those still present in the city — had already been removed.