Géraldine
Lay is a French photographer (born 1972) who creates very unique
street photographs in which her subjects appear almost
magically suspended in their action, be it walking,
chatting with a friend, or simply being lost in their own thoughts.
<<I
am fascinated with people, the histories you can read on their faces
crossing them on the street, and how you can isolate a moment or
emotion from its original context. Walter Benjamin has said of
photography: “It’s not the historical value of an image that
matters, but the image’s ability to create, from its own
imperceptible space, a phantom time, an insert moment, so to speak,
between past, present and future, which unfolds its light outside of
chronology”.>>
