The Unsolved Mystery Of A Missing Girl, Told In Touching Photos

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The Unsolved Mystery Of A Missing Girl, Told In
Touching Photos
Suzanne Gloria Lyall has been missing since 1998. Photographer Virginie
Rebetez decided to tell her story.
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07/05/2016 05:01 pm ET | Updated 2 hours ago
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Culture Writer, The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/missing-girl-photo-series-virginie-rebetez_us_577bfce7e4b041646410db3b
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VIRGINIE REBETEZ
A photo of Suzanne Gloria Lyall, presented by Virginie Rebetez.
On March 2, 1998, Suzanne Gloria Lyall walked home from her usual bus stop, on the way to
her campus dorm room. That’s the last time anybody saw her.
Eighteen years later, she still hasn’t been found, in spite of the search efforts of police, her
parents, and those enlisted by her parents, including a psychic who hovered her hands above
old photos, hoping to form a connection. Although Suzanne’s parents, Mary and Doug Lyall,
were able to find some closure — in 2001 they founded the Center for Hope, a community
providing support and resources to the parents of missing children — they never stopped
searching for their daughter.
Their story of tenacity, and of a relentless search for traces of evidence, caught the attention of
photographer Virginie Rebetez, whose previous work centered on the way missing and
unidentified people are described and depicted in police reports.
“In all my photographic projects I am interested in the invisible, the meaning of identity, the
traces we leave behind after death or an absence, in unfinished stories, in the materiality we, as
humans, need for closure,” Rebetez said in an interview with The Huffington Post. “I can say, in
a way, that I use photography to give consistence, materiality, to the invisible, to give a shape, a
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form to what is not there anymore.”
She’d hoped to tell the story of a single missing person, and the individuals whose lives are
shaped by that absence. When she met Mary and Doug Lyall, she knew she wanted to
photograph the materials and emotions surrounding their daughter’s case. The resulting series,
which Rebetez is hoping to turn into a book titled Out of the Blue, is a patchwork of haunting
images. In many of them, Suzanne is depicted, but her face is obscured, demonstrating visually
that her disappearance is the cause for the strife shown in the rest of the collection’s photos,
which consists of landscape shots, portraits, and a police composite of what Suzanne might
look like today.
“I found the different use of the photographs of Suzanne by all the different people involved in
the case quite interesting. Psychics used the portraits of her not for the representation of her
but as an object they handled and touched in order to get a connection,” Rebetez said. “The
more you read these files, the more your head is filled with stories, but the less you know. After
18 years, Suzanne’s case is still unresolved.”
The project, then, is a thoughtful commentary on the need we have for closure, which, unlike
other forms of comfort, like hope or faith, often must come in the form of something physical.
Rebetez hopes viewers will feel provoked by her meditation on loss, but more than anything she
hopes the project will raise awareness for Suzanne’s story.
“She disappeared in a time lapse of five minutes,” Rebetez reflects, reiterating the mystery and
tragedy of the case. “The distance between the bus stop to her university campus dorm.”
You can donate to Virginie Rebetez’s Kickstarter campaign here.
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Virginie Rebetez
Suzanne Gloria Lyall
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Virginie Rebetez
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Suzanne’s handwriting
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Virginie Rebetez
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An age-progressed poster of Suzanne.
Virginie Rebetez
Suzanne’s bedroom
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Virginie Rebetez
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Doug Lyall
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Virginie Rebetez
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Mary Lyall
Virginie Rebetez
The image used for the cover of Out of the Blue.
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Virginie Rebetez
A landscape from Out of the Blue.
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Virginie Rebetez
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Virginie Rebetez
A landscape from Out of the Blue.
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Virginie Rebetez
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The Unsolved Mystery Of A Missing Girl, Told In Touching Photos

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