Bruno Lapeyre roams the streets waiting for the moment when, as if guided by the camera he holds in his hands, he will press the shutter. The resulting image will capture the unique encounter between the split second when the photo was taken and reality.
“The greatest part of real life is made up of tiny details, of undisclosed, perhaps even non-disclosable, experiences that are never recorded.”
For Bruno Lapeyre photography is the way to capture and record those ephemeral and fleeting aspects of the World in which the meaning of life can be glimpsed.
For that he needs to produce an honest representation of real life, stripped of the dramatic overtones that characterise the increased importance of images in our society today.
This work is mirrored in a photograph showing a woman viewed from behind closely examining a painting in the Getty Centre. With no visible perspective and as if frozen in time, the details of her dress, her hat and her arms are given a special presence and are offered up to the spectator in the same way as the painting that we cannot see is offered up to her.
Bruno Lapeyre photographs faces, bodies and people as they are, capturing their simple presence as they go about their everyday lives. – Amélie Pironneau
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