Some installation pictures from my exhibition Generation AK at the Caserne Gallieni in Perpignan. Interview with Stephen Dupont in Perpignan.
Visa Pour L'Image Festival 2010
I am in Perpignan right now for this year's Visa festival. I have a show on my Afghanistan retrospective titled Generation AK hanging in the Caserne Gallieni on Rue de l'Academie. I only arrived yesterday but got see the work of Michael Nichols Redwoods, Athit Perawongmetha's Bangkok riots, Tomas Van Houtryve's Last communists and Munem Wasif's Islam in Bangladesh, all very strong shows!
The Gravure Room
"The Gravure Room" is born. Chris Reid and I have set up our photogravure press here at my studio. Long live photography etchings by light. Master photographers like Emerson, Stieglitz and Strand brought photogravure to the world's eyes. For more info on photogravure, go to Art Of The Photogravure.
Semi Permanent Brisbane 2010 Montage
Check out the montage video of the recent Semi Permanent Conference I spoke at in Brisbane.
Semi-Permanent Brisbane 2010 Montage from Semi Permanent on Vimeo.
Reportage Masterclass 2010
Registration is now taking place for this year's premiere Masterclass at the Reportage Documentary Photography Festival. It will be limited to 18 students, first come first serve basis. Tutors will be Stephen Dupont, Jack Picone and Tim Page along with special guests. For more information follow this link. Or register directly with Jack Picone.
Congratulations to the 2010 Moran Photography Prize Finalists
Last week I judged this year's Moran Photography Prizes for both the Open and School student sections. Photography lives on! It was a momentous task with several thousand entries in both open and school sections. Many of the works were of a very high standard, fresh and inspiring. I was particularly taken back with the Year's 9 and 10 works, and much of the student's work in general. Well done everybody.
10th Shanghai International Photographic Art Exhibition
I have just returned from Shanghai. I was invited by the Beijing based Chinese curator Zhimin along with other guest photographers including Didier Ruef, Andy Spyra, Christoph Lingg, David Doubilet, Tsuchida Hiromi, Paul Kranzler, Zilola Saidova and Bela Doka. Our exhibition "Documentary Photographers In The New Century" was curated by guest ICP curator Christopher Philips.
Photos Courtesy of Andy Spyra.
Room 1109, Everbright International Hotel Shanghai
The Exhibition venue Shanghai
Inside the Shanghai Exhibition Centre
Checking out Didier's book of Black Africa
Last Days to sign up for Angkor workshop
We're almost full up for the Angkor workshop at the end of this month. If you want to attend, please email Jack Picone at jack@jackpicone.com
See a review of our last workshop in Sydney by Enigma Creative MEDIA. Follow this link.
Visa Pour L'Image 2010
My Afghanistan retrospective will be exhibited at this year's Visa Pour L'Image festival in Perpignan. I will be in Perpignan from August 30 till September 5.
PMA Melbourne
I'll be running around PMA at the Melbourne Convention Centre on the 5th, this Sunday and making a presentation of my work alongside my good friend Tim Page at 2.45 - 3.45pm. Follow this link.
Semi-Permanent 2010
I'll be in Brisbane tomorrow making a presentation on my Afghanistan project. Follow this link.
See interview by Australian In front.
Generation AK Excerpt
Check out an excerpt from my recently completed multi-media film produced and edited by the brilliantly creative Pholpo mob.
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Generation AK Teaser from Stephen Dupont on Vimeo.
Stoned In Kabul
Film production currently in progress.
WAR Exhibition Floortalk By °South - Brisbane Powerhouse
If you're in Brisbane next Wednesday, May 19th, come along to out floortalk.
The Stu Harris New Life Downunder
My good friend and colleague Stuart Harris who I've had a fantastic collaborative working relationship while he was at Apple has moved to Hobart in Tasmania to work on personal photography projects as well as consulting and doing future workshops around photography. If you are every down his way or are in need of his professional assistance I highly recommend this fine man. To see his website follow this link.
Fight For Your Right
Photographers need to fight for your copyright. Check out this brilliant article by Sydney Morning Herald journalist Linda Morris. Follow this link.
Reportage Festival 2010
Get your entries in for the projections, and book in for the Reportage Masterclass with Jack Picone and myself.
Kumbh Mela 2010
I have recently returned from shooting the Kumbh Mela in Haridwar, India. This is my second Mela and a part of an ongoing book and exhibition project. Here are some test prints with liquid emulsion on rag paper of some polaroid portraits I made of Naga Sadhus.
The prints are all made by hand in the darkroom by my great friend and printer Chris Reid.
WAR Exhibition By °South - Brisbane Powerhouse
Check out our latest show "WAR" from the the °South Collective. A published book of the work is also available from the venue and selected bookstores. The exhibition opened at the Australian Centre for Photography in October 2009 before heading to Perth's Gallery Central in March 2010 as part of the FotoFreo Festival.
©Stephen Dupont 2010
Wounded MPLA soldiers being evacuated from the frontline at Ganda, Angola, 1993.
If you're in Brisbane next Wednesday, May 19, come along to our floortalk.
Gardner Photography Fellow 2010
Stephen Dupont has been named the 2010 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography by Harvard University’s Peabody Museum. Dupont will be working on a project entitled “Guns and Arrows: The Detribalization of Papua New Guinea”.
Following an international search, the Gardner Fellowship committee awarded the Fellowship to Stephen Dupont, a prize-winning Australian photographer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Time, and Rolling Stone, among other publications.
Over the past six years, Dupont has traveled to Papua New Guinea, photographically documenting its changing face and the powerful impact of globalization on the fabric of its traditional Melanesian society. Guns and Arrows, the proposed project, will continue this work. From the recasting of tribal society into an urban proletariat and the effects of violence and lawlessness in Port Moresby to the westernization of traditional society in the Highlands, it will be an in-depth study of cultural erosion as well as a celebration of an ancient people. He plans to use 35mm, 6x6, panoramic, and Polaroid formats for documentary street photography, landscapes, and portraiture; weaving single images, contact sheets, composites, and video grabs into multiple forms: a traditional exhibition at the Peabody Museum, a book with the Peabody Museum Press, and an interactive web presentation.