The Drum Interview - 2021

Stephen Dupont - 2019

An interview with Stephen Dupont by Kirk Docker, 2019.

Tales By Light S2: Stephen Dupont - 2017

 A Restless Peace - 2017

Australian photographer Stephen Dupont has a fascination with disappearing worlds and, more particularly, with death. With camera in hand, he finds veins to mine in war, in Mexico’s celebration of the Day of the Dead and in professionals who deal with the deceased. In witnessing his mother’s death, he asks himself, “How far can I take it?”

Director: Krystle Wright

Editor & Motion Design: Toby & Pete

Cinematography: Felt Soul Media (Ben Knight & Travis Rummel)

Music Score: Charlie Burns

Fixer: Maria Verza

Supported by Canon Australia

Stephen Dupont’s Polaroids - 2017

A short film by Stephane Vendran for Expolaroid Festival in Montelimar, France, 2017.

Afghanistan: The Perils of Freedom - 2010

ABC NEWS24 Australia - October 19, 2010

Interview and exhibition preview at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney.

The New York Public Library Photography Collection - 2010

Stephen C. Pinson, PhD, Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Assistant Director for Art, Prints and Photographs, and Robert B. Menschel Curator of Photography talks about the New York Public Library's photography collection.

Stephen Dupont Profile - ABC Sunday Arts - 2009

A profile of Stephen Dupont and his hand made artist books for ABC Australia's Sunday Arts program, Series 5, Episode 13, May 24, 2009.

Produced and reported by Fenella Kernebone.

Afghanistan - A Survivor’s Tale - 2008

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT - 2008. ABC AUSTRALIA

On Tuesday, April 29th, 2008, two days after a failed assassination attempt against Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai, photojournalist Stephen Dupont and writer Paul Raffaele, both Australian, set out to investigate opium eradication in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar. Minutes later they became witnesses — and victims — of the escalating violence threatening the Karzai government when a suicide bomber attacked their convoy. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed at least 15 and wounded 14, according to ISAF.

A raw and confronting look inside a suicide bombing filmed and narrated by Stephen Dupont who has been capturing images of Afghanistan for more than a decade. He tells his incredible story of survival to Foreign Correspondent's Mark Corcoran.

The film went on to win the Australian Logie Award for Most Outstanding Public Affairs Report and his photographic essays won in both the Australian Walkleys and the United Nations Peace Awards.

A film by Stephen Dupont & Mark Corcoran

Producer: Mark Corcoran

Camera: Stephen Dupont

Danger Man - 2007

SUNDAY PROGRAM - CH9 Australia, June 27, 2007

Profile on Stephen Dupont’s photography journey covering war, culture and natural disasters.

Producer: Nick Farrow

Axe Me Biggie, or Mr Take My Picture - 2006

A short behind the scenes film about the making of Axe Me Biggie. From the streets of Kabul Afghanistan in 2006 to the darkrooms of Sydney Australia. Watch how the project was created, evolved and developed.

“Axe Me Biggie”  — a crude Anglo phonetic rendering of the Dari for “Mister, take my picture!” — is Stephen’s answer to the plea he’s heard all over town the previous three weeks. It seems to mean something in English, “axe” being just a more visceral and violent version of the camera verb “to shoot,” returning all its original aura of surrender. And because Stephen has that pulverizing Aussie-rules-rugby body, “Axe Me Biggie” also seems a request addressed to him personally. Stephen is Biggie. And on this day Biggie finally answers them all, en masse, saying, “Yes, alright. I will axe you, shoot you, take your bloody picture. Have a seat!”

Here, speed acts as the slayer of editorialization … of bullshit. The entire session unfolds over a cluster of locations within two hundred yards of each other, unfolds in three hours, between three and six PM, or roughly one picture every two minutes. Now ordinarily we prefer our art to be long suffered over, if only to feel we’ve gotten our money’s worth. This is the opposite. And it gives all the benefits of the opposite: no time to fuck around, to prevaricate. The photographer, as he should, becomes irrelevant. Only that moment, that eternal moment that the Polaroid Land Camera creates, tearing a space in the continuum of time.

In the gap, these faces. The faces one hundred Afghans now present to you, and to themselves. They confound, rejecting every attempt to be tidily stored away in the mental filing cabinet, and yet strike that deep-timbered tone: recognition. It says, I don’t know that man; I know that man. I don’t know that place; I know that place. I know, in that soul way of knowing birth and death, that look … when I am, you are, he is, staring life in the eye and in the tripping shutter of the camera life blinks first. - Jacques Menasche

A film by Stephen Dupont & Jacques Menasche

Editor: Elizabeth Tadic

Camera: Jacques Menasche

Stephen Dupont Photographer - 2006

CHINA WORLD Program, China - 2006

Profile on photographer Stephen Dupont and on the streets with him in Lianzhou, China during the international photo festival.

War Photographer - 2004

Asia Pacific Program - ABC Australia - 2004

Inside the world of Stephen Dupont's conflict photography.

By Helen Vatsikopoulos