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A project well worth supporting, Ben has seven days left to raise funds and has already raised $6320 of his $15,000 goal.
For more information on the project, follow the direct link here.
Stephen has been selected as one of fifty three finalists in the 2013 National Portrait Prize held by the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra with his work from Papua New Guinea.
The potrait featured below is from the body of work Stephen has developed in conjunction with his Harvard Peabody Fellowship.
From the White Sheet Series, by Stephen Dupont
Stephen has been interviewed for Yen Magazine and the feature can be viewed in the latest issue. The article discusses his Raskol's work from Papua New Guinea in lieu of the recently released book Raskols published by Powerhouse.
Stephen Dupont's Raskols have been featured on Time LightBox. The article speaks about Stephen's experience photographing the gang and the new book that has recently been released by Powerhouse.
The whole article can be viewed here.
The winner of the Bowness Photography prize in which Stephen Dupont's Blue Boy is a finalist will be announced on Thursday October 4, 2012.
The online catalogue with all the finalist's work and artist statements can be viewed here.
The Blue Boy from the series Piksa Nuigini Finalist in the 2012 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize
Stephen DUPONT
Artist Statement:
The series Piksa Nuigini or Picture New Guinea aims to capture the human spirit of the people of Papua New Guinea (PNG). In a sense the series is a window inside humanity in one of the world's last truly wild and unique frontiers. It's about tribal identity in 2011, and the annual Highland's Sing-Sing festivals might be the last cultural showcase of tradition and custom left.
My photograph aims to showcase not just the visual anthropology of a race and land, but to highlight the effects of rapid changes taking place on traditional values and cultural identity. In recent times PNG has gone through some of the most significant cultural shifts and change since the early days of colonisation. The work aims to document what I see as 'detribalisation', where PNG society is losing its culture due to the impact of globilisation.
Stephen Dupont will be exhibiting his Papua New Guinea work 'Raskols' at the Goulburn Regional Art Gallery opening September 20, 2012 in a collective show titled 'Postcards from the Rim'.
'Postcards from the Rim brings together the works of six award-winning contemporary and cutting edge Australian photographers in a rare insiders’ view into our nearest neighbours. Showing alongside a stunning private collection of Papua New Guinean masks never been seen before.'
The exhibition will be on show for one month until October 20, 2012.
Dumbo Arts Festival is here again and this year Stephen Dupont will be participating with the Raskols exhibition. Bought to you by United Photo Industries this year's event looks great, the exhibition line-up can be viewed here.
United Photo Industries are the same bunch that produced Photoville this year. Dumbo Arts Festival is a celebration of Art, Music and Performance and aims to highlight Brooklyn's prescence in the Arts.
The event will take place from September 28 to September 30, 2012
From the series Raskols by Stephen Dupont
The National Library in Canberra has been the first to acquire Stephen Dupont's recently completed Afghanistan 1993 - 2012 Box Set of handmade artists books from his Afghanistan series.
The set includes Why Am I A Marine?, Axe Me Biggie, Generation AK, Stoned in Kabul and The Afghanistan Diaries.
The books are fully archival and printed with Epson pigment inks on Innova 225 gsm 100% cotton-rag paper, then coated with Hahnemuhle spray coating. Hand stitched section sewn binding with debossed greyboard front and back covers and black cloth spine. The slip case cloth is Desert pattern MARPAT (short for MARine PATtern), a digital camouflage pattern designed for the United States Marine Corps.
New video book previews of the hand made books can be viewed via the book section on Stephen Dupont's website .
We will be posting shortly multimedia pieces on the blog that demonstrate the creative process involved in making Stephen's books.
Stephen has been featured in a seven page spread in the august edition of Brazilian periodical 'Revista Photo Magazine' interviewed by writer Roberta Tavares, Dupont talks about his work, photography in general, his artist's books and the important factors of authorship in the field of documentary photography.
To have a look at the article view the PDF here.
The photo displayed above from Revista Photo Magazine's August edition is by Stephen Dupont from the Piksa Nuigini series
We'd like to present another work from Stephen's archive...
Digging into the vault the collection of photographs we are highlighting are from the 'Dogs of Bucharest ' series, work that Stephen shot in Romania in 2001.
The project focuses on the stray dog situation in the city of Bucharest and the decision made by the mayor of Bucharest calling for the extermination of the city's hounds.
Furious animal rights groups, spearheaded by former French actress Brigitte Bardot in turn, declared war on the mayor. Bardot flew to Bucharest, where the two in a public rapprochement signed an agreement to temporarily hold off on the killing....
VICE Magazine have recently interviewed Stephen Dupont about his 'Raskols' work from Papua New Guinea in the light of the soon to be published edition of the work by PowerHouse Books.
The entire interview can be read here.
For a preview of the 'Raskols' book and to order it visit PowerHouse Books.
The PowerHouse published edition of 'Raskols' is due for release on October 16, 2012
from the series, Raskols by Stephen Dupont
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Stephen Dupont's Blue Boy Portrait from his Harvard Peabody Scholarship work in Papua New Guinea has been nominated as a finalist in the 2012 Bowness Photography Prize 42 photographers have been selected from 2500 entries which they have stated as being the largest amount of submissions on record.
The Judges of this year's prize are Magnum Photographer Trent Parke, NGV’s Senior Curator of Photography Isobel Crombie, and MGA Gallery Director Shaune Lakin.
The winner of the $25 000 prize will be announced at Monash Gallery of Art on Thursday October 4, 2012
Blue Boy by Stephen Dupont, from the series Piksa Nuigini
The 2012 Bowness Photography Prize Finalists
The 2012 Laos, workshop with Stephen Dupont and Jack Picone has come to an end. The course began July 9 and ran until July 14 in the picturesque city of Luang Prabang.
Next dates for the following workshop are November 25 to 30 in Havana Cuba.
La Habana is the capital city of Cuba and its romantic atmosphere and infectious energy are legendry.
The city lies on the northern coast of Cuba, south of the Florida Keys, where the Gulf of Mexico joins the Caribbean Sea. The low hills on which the city lies rise gently from the deep blue waters of the straits and like much of Cuba; the city enjoys a pleasant year-round tropical climate. Due to Havana’s more than five hundred year existence, the city boasts some of the most diverse styles of architecture in the world. From Spanish colonial castles built in the late 16th century to modernist present-day high-rises, Havana is a documentary photographer’s dream.
A melting pot of cultural stimulus this is a time of transition for the country, take the opportunity to be mentored in your pursuit of narrative, places are being filled quickly.
Soak up the post- revolutionary atmosphere by following in the footsteps of Hemingway, Greene, Castro and Guevara...
To make bookings contact Jack Picone
Or for more information Stephen Dupont
The Jack Picone and Stephen Dupont Documentary Photography Workshops are proudly sponsored by Fujifilm Australia
Grappling with Stephen's extensive archive throughout this year gave us the idea to dig into the vault and highlight some of his past work that is not currently featured on his site and has been hidden away for some time.
The first collection of photos we've extracted and selected are from the Parisian runways in 1997.
Steve at the time was commissioned by 'Le Monde' newspaper in Paris to document the collections everyday for the paper and was given unlimited access to cover the shows in his own style of Reportage.
What surfaced from within were elements of a Lisette Model or Dorothy Arbus world. Freaks, model androids, fashionistas at their best. The weird eccentricities and superficialities of the fashion world come to show in Dupont's shots.
Steve has mentioned it was one of the most stressful assignments he'd ever done at the time.
"The experience was quite unpleasant at times, facing the daily grind dealing with arseholes basically, so much pretension and egos flying around. At the same time I was challenged and loved the moments constantly gracing my viewfinder... It was a total freak show actually... I was possessed as well by the unbelievable sexuality and beauty everywhere, the supermodels who are like beautiful and flawless androids. The weeks I spent shooting were crazy, working days and nights and parties, lots and lots of parties..."
Paris '97 by Stephen Dupont,
slide by Anna Maria Antoinette D'Addario
PowerHouse Books is set to release this October, Stephen Dupont's book 'Raskols: The Gangs of Papua New Guinea'. The collection has been previously only available for sale as one of Dupont's limited edition artist's books.
The October release published by PowerHouse sees the Raskols work put together in a beautiful hardcover copy 8x10 inches, 144 pages with an accessible retail price of $30.00.
To read the official press release for the book's publication follow the link below
PowerHouse Press Release for Stephen Dupont's Raskols: The Gangs of Papua New Guinea
a preview of the book itself can be viewed here.
from the series Raskols, by Stephen Dupont
The following pictures were shot at the Photoville Festival and show the set up of Stephen Dupont's Raskols Exhibition, currently on show the last day of the festival is July 1, anyway in New York at the moment should definitely give it a look.
Thanks to public sponsors the team at Photoville reached their goal on Kickstarter and enabled Photoville to become a free event.
More support for United Photo Industries to continue supporting emerging photographers and create new photography based events can be made here.