Stephen Dupont:: Papua New Guinea Portraits and Diaries • • Art and Archaeology • Travel to Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Stephen Dupont:: Papua New Guinea Portraits and Diaries • • Art and Archaeology • Travel to Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Stephen Dupont:: Papua New Guinea Portraits and Diaries UNITED STATES CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS • PEABODY MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY • 2 MAY - 2 SEPTEMBER 2013 The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University presents a new exhibition by award-winning Australian photographer Stephen Dupont. As the Museum’s 2010 Robert Gardner Photography Fellow, Dupont returned to Papua New Guinea and explored the mountainous Highlands, the serpentine Sepik River and the dangerously gritty capital city, Port Moresby. His photographs and artist’s journals document tremendous social change caused by globalization, HIV-AIDS, migration, poverty, and new wealth. In his travels across Papua New Guinea—located north of Australia, on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea —Dupont set up temporary outdoor studios and made innovative portrait photographs. “I use white and black bed sheets to create an outdoor studio that not only captures my sitter but also allows me to reveal the audience gathering and the environment around the sheet," says Dupont. "You feel as if you are on the streets of Mt. Hagen or in a Sepik village." Dupont's portraits, landscapes, and diaries are a journey through Papua New Guinea's villages, cities, mines, valleys, and traditional tribal ceremonies. Piksa Niugini: Portraits and Diaries, the accompanying book—two volumes in a special slipcase (Peabody Museum Press/Radius Books) — may be purchased at the event. Stephen Dupont is a photographer, artist and documentary filmmaker. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, Aperture,Newsweek, Time, GQ, Esquire, Le Figaro, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Independent, The Guardian, The New York Times Magazine, Stern, and Vanity Fair. Dupont has held major exhibitions in London, Paris, New York, Sydney, Canberra, Tokyo, and Shanghai, and at Perpignan’s Visa Pour L’Image, China’s Ping Yao and Holland’s Noorderlicht festivals. Dupont’s handmade photographic artist books and portfolios are in the selected collections of the National Gallery of Australia, National Library of Australia, The New York Public Library, Berlin and Munich National Art Libraries, Stanford University, Yale University, and the Boston Athenaeum. Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology Website