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.

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.

 

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.

Photography workshop - Cambodia

In conjunction with Jack Picone and Tim Page I'll be holding the Ankor photography workshop in Siem Reap, Cambodia during late June 2010. Participating students will get the opportunity to work alongside myself, Jack and Tim on a 1:1 basis, learn, evolve and get inspired. For more information and bookings follow this link.