In 2011, at just 22 years of age, the self-taught French photographer Stephen Dock set off to cover the war in Syria without a sponsor. Over the course of several trips, he built up a body of fieldwork covering the ruins of Aleppo, the Zawiya Mountain and the eastern tip of Rojava. At the time, his images of the Syrian resistance were published in major newspapers such as Newsweek, Le Figaro and La Croix. Ten years later, his work on Northern Ireland was exhibited at the Musée Nicéphore Niépce in Chalon-sur-Saône and at La Filature in Mulhouse. Attached to the traces left by all types of conflict, real or latent, whether of class or of war, Stephen Dock’s writing becomes increasingly plastic, reflecting his distance from the field.
