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The gap created between an initial meaning of his photographs selected for the media and a meaning renewed by new settings, brings it to another form where an image is not frozen reality. These pictures question a new point of view. He retains images taken on the edge of the frontline, right ”next to” it, forbidden images, ”absent presences”, mundane gestures, non-events – violence remains inferred. Human interest stories evocate a form of literature, stories, even in a fractioned form, these images are living memory, places, faces, feelings. They come back to the present, to our intention.

”After studying photography in Lyon (France), I move towards photojournalism and soon experience the field. I produce my first reportages for French magazines. A first story on public hospitals in Venezuela in 2008 marks the start of my involvement into international topics linked to life, its different aspects, and the role that man can play in it.

I work on the dysfunctions of societies, my reportages lead me to the West Bank, Syria, Ireland, Mali, Central African Republic, Lebanon, or Nepal.

Through my observations, I question myself and think about how to go beyond conflict photography, and little by little beyond magazine assignments. I build stories as I experience them, moving away from single facts.” – Stephen Dock