Workshops June 20, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, Degree South, Documentary, Photojournalism , add a commentOne of the highlights of PMA in Melbourne was the bootcamp lecture by Stephen Dupont and the legendary Tim Page on the last day of the event. Promoting their personal work and the collective Degree South that they are part of both photographers gave insights and advice into their art and practice to a packed lecture theatre.
- Stephen Dupont and Tim Page photo Bohdan Warchomij
Stephen Dupont announced three Photography workshops with Jack Picone. the first being an Angkor and Siem Reap workshop from June 25-30, 2010 with special Guest Tutor Tim Page. The second workshop from November 15-20th 2010 is part of Reportage in Sydney, and Tim Page is again a guest tutor. The third workshop is in Kathmandu from December 6-13, 2010.
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Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography June 20, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, Awards, Degree South, Documentary, Publishing, Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography , add a commentGardner Photography Fellow, 2010
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. Dupont will be working on a project entitled Guns and Arrows: The Detribalization of Papua New Guinea.
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, 6×6, 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.
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Polaroid portrait of raskol (“criminal” in Tok Pison) Samson Maipe inside the Kips Kaboni (Red Devils) safe house in Kaugare Settlement, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 2004. Copyright Stephen Dupont. |
Stephen Dupont – first Australian to be awarded the
2010 Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography
Esteemed Australian photographer, Stephen Dupont, is the first Australian to be awarded the prestigious 2010 Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
A self-taught photographer, Stephen Dupont has captured photo essays from some of the world’s most dangerous regions including Afghanistan, Angola, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Congo, East Timor, Iraq, Israel, Rwanda and Somalia.
As part of the Award prize, the Fellowship funds an ‘established practitioner of the photographic arts to create and subsequently publish through the Peabody Museum a major book of photographs on the human condition anywhere in the world.’
For his project, Stephen has selected to travel to Papua New Guinea where he will spend 12 months working on Guns and Arrows: The Detribalisation of Papua New Guinea. Over the past six years, he has travelled to Papua New Guinea to photographically document its changing face and the powerful impact of globalisation on the fabric of its traditional Melanesian society.
“Guns and Arrows will be an in-depth study of cultural erosion as well as a celebration of an ancient people,” Stephen said.
As part of his project, he will also produce a major book profiling his Papua New Guinea photographs; conduct an exhibition and lecture at the Peabody Museum; as well as produce an interactive web presentation.
Stephen Dupont said he has been an advocate of FUJIFILM Professional films throughout his 21-year career, in particular FP-100C 5” x 4” instant colour film, Neopan ACROS black-and-white film and Velvia colour transparency.
FUJIFILM Australia National Manager – Professional, Kevin Cooper, said the 2010 Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography is a fitting accolade for Stephen Dupont who has been recognised internationally for his outstanding photographic work that has captured the essence of so many cultures, which have often been war-torn at the time.
“He has worked in extremely high risk environments, including Afghanistan where he survived a suicide bombing,” Mr Cooper said.
Stephen Dupont has earned many other prestigious photography awards including a Robert Capa Gold Medal citation from the Overseas Press Club of America; a Bayeux War Correspondent’s Prize; plus achieved first places in the World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, the Australian Walkleys and the Leica/CCP Documentary Award.
In 2007, Stephen was also awarded the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanitarian Photography for his ongoing project in Afghanistan.
His handmade photographic artist books and portfolios are in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, National Library of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Australian War Memorial, The New York Public Library, Berlin and Munich National Art Libraries, Stanford University, Yale University, Boston Athanaeum, Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Joy of Giving Something, Inc.
Year of the Book March 31, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, Degree South, Documentary, Foto Freo, Photography Festivals, Photojournalism, Publishing, War , add a comment
- Michael Coyne Degree South Collective Book Launch
- James Brickwood, Dean Sewell OCULI and David Dare Parker Degree South
- Dean Sewell Photo Oculi Museum Perth
2010 has been a great year for the photograph in book form at Foto Freo. Max Pam’s Atlas Chronicles launched prior to the festival opening and then in rapid succession Brad Rimmer launched Silence at the Fremantle Prison, Oculi, the respected Australian East Coast photo collective launched its massive first tome, and Degree South launched WAR, an impressively seminal work at Central Gallery in Perth. Gianni Frinzi from T & G Publishing is to be commended for his huge contribution to Australian photography.
Degree South formed in 2006 at Foto Freo as a cooperative that has an established archive that cover’s Australia’s involvement in the world’s conflicts since Vietnam in the 60′s. Individually Tim Page, David Dare Parker, Ben Bohane, Stephen Dupont, Jack Picone, Michael Coyne, Ashley Gilbertson, and Sean Flynn have strong reputations that have been hammered out in the world’s conflicts. Collectively those reputations are significantly enhanced. The book is a collector’s item and their show is not to be missed.
