stephen+dufont

=__Stephen Dupont__ = here is a picture of him

Dupont uses his pictures in a way not just to hurt you but to embrace you in to his pictures.

The artists own experience of the violence of war is depicted in these pictures

Was born in Sydney, Australia in 1967. Since beginning his photographic career in 1989, he has produced photo essays from dozens of countries, including some of the world’s most dangerous regions: Afghanistan, Angola, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, India, Israel, Iraq, Rwanda, Somalia, and Zaire. Dupont’s reportage has earned him photography’s most prestigious prizes, including a Robert Capa Gold Medal citation from the Overseas Press Club of America, a Bayeaux War Correspondent’s Prize and first places in the World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International and the Australian Walkleys and Leica/CCP Documentary Award. In 2007 he was awarded the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography for his ongoing project on Afghanistan. Dupont has exhibited his work in London, Paris, New York, Sydney, Canberra, Tokyo, Shanghai, and at Perpignan’s Visa Pour L’Image Festival. In 1999 he was a co-founding member of the first festival of photojournalism in Australia: REPORTAGE- a Celebration of Australian Photojournalism.

Stephen Dupont was born in Sydney, Australia in 1967. Since beginning his photographic career in 1989, he has produced photo essays from dozens of countries, including some of the world’s most dangerous regions: Afghanistan, Angola, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, India, Israel, Iraq, Rwanda, Somalia, and Zaire. Dupont’s reportage has earned him photography’s most prestigious prizes, including a Robert Capa Gold Medal citation from the Overseas Press Club of America, a Bayeaux War Correspondent’s Prize and fi rst places in the World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International and the Australian Walkleys and Leica/CCP Documentary Award. In 2007 he was awarded the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography for his ongoing project on Afghanistan. Dupont has exhibited his work in London, Paris, New York, Sydney, Canberra, Tokyo, Shanghai, and at Perpignan’s Visa Pour L’Image Festival. In 1999 he was a co-founding member of the fi rst festival of photojournalism in Australia: REPORTAGE-A Celebration of Australian Photojournalism. Topic: When the fi rst casualty of war is the truth, photojournalists are our best line of defence. Stephen Dupont has covered confl icts from Afghanistan to Rwanda, won major awards, and now we at the AIPP are proud to have Stephen as our Keynote Speaker for this year’s Professional Photographers Conference.