Fucked Up Fotos

In Fucked Up Fotos Stephen Dupont curates a career's worth of mishapsdouble-exposures, light leaks, X-ray clouding, corrupted computer filesand discovers spectacular beauty in the damage. Spanning 30 years, five continents and more than a dozen countries, from Afghanistan to Papua New Guinea, from China to Romania, these eclectic images create a veritable catalogue of everything that can go wrong in a photograph, whether through user error, mechanical malfunction, or deliberate sabotage. At the same time, they return us to the primal magic of photography and its ability to capture something beyond what was intended. The result is a visual mediation on chance, and a celebration of the accidental, the unpredictable and the imperfect.

Auteur
Born in Sydney in 1967, Stephen Dupont is internationally recognized for his concerned photography on the human condition, war and climate. His many accolades include the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography and the Robert Gardner Fellowship from Harvard University. Dupont's handmade artist's books and prints are held in major museums and libraries including the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Tate Britain, the New York Public Library and the British Library, as well as in private collections. In 2015 Steidl published Dupont's retrospective work on Afghanistan, Generation AK: The Afghanistan Wars 19932012, whose honors include the Olivier Rebbot Award and Pictures of the Year International's Best Photography Book.