For many years the American photographer Margery Clay has shared her time between Paris, Virginia and Cracow; three places where she has developed very strong ties and which serve as the scene of operations for her photographic wanderings. Black and white only, her urban images depict fleeting and fragile moment of lives, marked by poetry and fraternal empathy. One of her most impressive themes is her series of shots of residential buildings, located in popular neighbourhoods and photographed at dusk, with no human presence. Under Margery Clay’s gaze, these buildings attain a loftiness marked by fragility, evidenced by the scars and traces of the degradations scratched on their walls. This vulnerability is the metaphor of our human condition and our ineluctable disappearance.
Margery Clay
From 12th May to 29th July 2017
Galerie du canon
10 rue Pierre Semard
83000 Toulon
France
