An interview-manifesto with the photographer of L'Europe du silence. Three main photographic projects, the United Kingdom, Berlin and the Eastern countries, and the United States, together with research around the idea and the matter: such is the summary of Stéphane Duroy's path. An artist of few words, he tells his story in a chronological conversation embracing his whole itinerary: his childhood, his influences, his relation to History and to today's world, his preference for books over exhibitions, and his relationship to photography, from which he has been taking his distance for around ten years. The fruit of about forty conversations held over three years, this book synthesises fifty years of an atypical practice.