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Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography named
Prize-winning photographer Stephen Dupont honored
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has named Stephen Dupont, a prize-winning Australian photographer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair magazine, Time magazine, and Rolling Stone, the 2010 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography. At the Peabody Museum, Dupont will work on a project titled “Guns and Arrows: The Detribalization of Papua New Guinea.”
Over the past six years, Dupont has traveled to Papua New Guinea to photographically document its changing face and the powerful impact of globalization on the fabric of its traditional Melanesian society. “Guns and Arrows” 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.
Dupont plans to use 35 mm, 6×6, panoramic, and Polaroid formats for documentary street photography, landscapes, and portraiture. He intends to weave 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.
For the complete press release, visit the Peabody Museum website.
Stephen Dupont: 2010 Gardner Photography Fellow All photos © Stephen Dupont
Suspect
A ‘rental extortion’ suspect taken in for questioning at Gerahu Police Station (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Feb. 20, 2009)
Church in the PNG Highlands
An isolated church perched up in the hills surrounding Mount Hagen (Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea, 2004)
Mando Tribesman
Asoro Mudman from the Mando Tribe (Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea, 2004)
Constable
Polaroid portrait of Senior Assistant Constable Richard Lakarno of East Boroko police station (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 2009)
Raskol
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)
Children playing
Children playing in the garbage dump at Baruni (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 2009)
Children hanging out
Children hanging out near the entrance to the garbage dump at Baruni (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 2009)
