Friday 8 May, 17:00

Tour of Dany Gignoux’s Photographic Archives

Photographer Dany Gignoux’s work, presented alongside texts by Georges Haldas, offers a sensitive documentary portrait of Geneva café life in the early 1980s. The exhibition gathers photographs and associated archival material that reveal everyday interactions, interiors and social rituals of bistro culture.
Curator Eloi Contesse’s guided tour focuses on Gignoux’s photographic archives, illuminating the artist’s approach to framing, sequence and context, and how images and texts together evoke memory, community and the rhythms of daily life.

Passage de la Tour 2,
1205 Genève
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Photo Credit: Bibliothèque de Genève / Dany Gignoux

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