OUT OF THE BLUE by VIRGINIE REBETEZ - last copies

– Suzanne Gloria Lyall, missing since March 2 1998 in Albany (NY), at the age of 19 -
Out of the Blue is a conceptual work with a tragic underlying narrative — the disappearance of the teenager. The project tends to question our relationship towards absence and loss and the need of physicality in the process of acceptance and closure. The book combines materials from different sources, such as family archives, reproductions of police and psychic files as well as photographs by Virginie Rebetez. This two year project is also a reflection on the medium of photography. The status of each image is constantly shifting, offering new meaning and context to this open case. Through the work, Suzanne is never clearly shown. The only clear portraits of her are the three "aged-progressed composites" made by a forensic artist Virginie commissioned, which show Suzanne's possible features at the age of 37 (2015).

OUT OF THE BLUE by VIRGINIE REBETEZ
Texts by Frédérique Destribats, Simon Karlstetter & Elisa Rusca
Editor Delphine Bedel
Design Chi-Long Trieu
144 pages, 21x28 cm, English
With a 28 p booklet, & 1 folded poster
Four-color process, clothbound hardback,
Edition 10/2016
ISBN 978-90-821182-2-3
Signed copies available on request

AWARD NOMINATIONS

• Shortlisted for the Author Photobook Award Arles 2017
• Shortlisted for the Paris Photo - Aperture Foundation Photobook Award 2017
• Nominated as Best PhotoBook of 2016 by Rémi Coignet, Yumi Goto, Colin Pantall & Stefano Stoll 

PRESS

Zoo, Alice “Out of the blue by Virginie Rebetez”, British Journal of Photography, 03.2019

Konstantinides, Anneta, “Photographers Series focuses on the 20-year Search for Susanne Lyall”, DailyMail UK, 12.2018

Mc Cloy, Anne “Out of the blue” interview with Virginie Rebetez, CBS6Albany, 02.03.2018

Sisson, Molly “Missing… Investigating through Photography”, interview with Virginie Rebetez, Fisheye Magazine, 01.2018

Bubic, Olga “Out of the blue”, Photographer.ru, 01.2018

Ek, Christer “Out of the blue”, Who needs another photo blog, 12.2016

Pantall, Colin “Out of the blue”, blog, 11.2016

Hobson, Greg “Out of the blue”, 1000Words Magazine, 10.2016

Daghighian, Nassim “Out of the blue” Interview avec Virginie Rebetez, Photo Theoria 13, 10.2016, pp 01–27

Yatskevich, Olga “Out of the blue”, Collector Daily, 10.2016

Sulis Gear, Elizabeth “Meet Suzanne Gloria Lyall, a Girl that disappeared 18 years ago”, Feature Shoot, 02.08.2016

Crum, Maddie “The unsolved History of a Missing Girl”, The Huffington Post (US), 05.07.2016

Interview with Virginie Rebetez, SRF1, Kulturplatz, 06.05.2015

Gavard-Perret, Jean-Paul “Out of the blue”, Le Litteraire, 24.03.2015

Gavard-Perret, Jean-Paul, “De l'art helvétique contemporain”, 04.2015