Dany Gignoux (photographer) and poet Georges Haldas present a compelling dialogue between documentary photography and lyrical prose. The exhibition brings together photographs and written fragments that register everyday life in Geneva’s cafés, combining on-the-spot reportage with memory-infused “prose inspirée.” Through intimate black-and-white images and spare, evocative texts the works transfigure mundane scenes into poetic testimony, revealing social undercurrents and human tenderness. Archival materials frame this historic encounter between two generations of cultural chroniclers.

Writer George Haldas and photographer Danny Gignoux present paired perspectives on café life, combining photographs and text-based works to examine sociability in public spaces. The exhibition traces fifty years of change — from intimate face-to-face exchange to mass consumption and the rise of virtual platforms — and interrogates how uses of cafés have transformed. Through evocative images and narrative fragments, it reveals what these shifts reveal about memory, community and the tensions between nostalgia and critique.