Quel temps il fait, Stéphane Duroy

"The following text, written in 2010, is devoted to L'Europe du silence, a major book by Stéphane Duroy. It deals with the relationship between the photographic image and history, exile, photographic time imagined by Stéphane Duroy. He explores a question that is too often ignored: the sequence of images in a book, the way to build a photographic essay. It highlights the fragility of our knowledge, shows how much uncertainty is decisive in photographic creation. This text also attempts to understand why the most interesting part of the photographic image is the hallucinatory glare it conveys, the perception of what is being erased and at the same time of what is in a state of emergence, of the dawn and dusk of time and history. " Ezra Nahmad