“First a press photographer, little by little he distanced himself from the media to develop his personal projects, which ended up in books and exhibitions. He doesn’t photograph much, with a great economy of means and subtle treatment, and with no color effect (that he mixes with black and white) to explore Europe of the 20th century marked by two atrocious wars whose memory he examines.
When he was a reporter, he was particularly attached to two territories: Berlin and Great Britain. He made an in-depth portrait of them, being careful to take shots continuously in order to render the complexity of the situations and the diversity of spaces, too often brought back to conventions close to post cards. His journey through Europe was marked by a muted tone, serious but without pathos, that established a time from which the anecdote is completely excluded to leave place for a form of desolation. His portrayal of a painful past on which the present is based demands our concern.
Each image is driven by an interior necessity, a profound and disillusioned reflection on the meaning of a history over the course of which man does not draw lessons from the horrors that he has committed or to which he was an accomplice. The calm and determination at the core of his intention demands thought and reflection just as much as a visual approach.
Stretched between the moment of the shot and the fact that it is facing history, photography seems to redefine our conception of temporality. Pursuing an approach both documentary and conceptual at the same time, his work establishes a disenchanted analysis of the 20th century and its contemporary consequences.”
EXHIBITION
Interstices
Stéphane Duroy
From the 1st to the 30rd June, 2016
Musee Paul Dupuy
13 Rue de la Pleau
31000 Toulouse
France
http://www.map-photo.fr
https://www.agencevu.com/photographers/photographer.php?id=33
