Axe Me Biggie (mister take my picture) / Stephen Dupont
First the big picture, and on March 13, 2006 – the day Stephen Dupont made these photographs – the big picture in Kabul is more bombs, more drugs, and more poor. It’s an old story by now: the foreign promise unfulfilled, the failed reforms, a country immune to money, schools, and eight-part programs, always reverting to its savage nature. It doesn’t help that Stephen and I spent the better part of the last three weeks in a mental hospital. Whatever other effects that may have had, it turned this city into a sort of violent burlesque and in my mind’s eye I see, as undoubtedly he does too, a kaleidoscopic cascade of junkies, electroshock patients, and amputees.
This series is not about the big picture. It’s about all the small ones, the forty-seven like-no-one-elses you see here. As journalists we use individuals as emblems, symbols, small faces to make big judgments. But obviously, any single Afghan, any single story, is more ambiguous, more murky than that....
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Specifications:
Reference: Proposal for photographic exhibition Axe Me Biggie (Mister, take my picture)
Photographs by text by Stephen Dupont
Definition: A series of portraits from the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Exhibit specifications:
47 BW photographs: prints, (matt black wooden frames, no glass)
47 @Paper 60 x 45 cm (Image W=39 cm)
text panel (1 - unframed), main intro, bio
(panels are in English) available translations French, Italian, German, Spanish, Croatian
Space Desired: 14 linear meters
Date and venue of previous shows:
War Photo Limited; Dubrovnik, Croatia - 2018
Contact:
Wade Goddard
wpl@warphotoltd.com
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