Afghanistan: The Perils of Freedom 1993 - 2009 Exhibition installation film
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A film by Stephen Dupont. This is an installation of my exhibition Afghanistan: The Perils of Freedom 1993 - 2009 which was held at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney, Australia in October 2010. The exhibition is currently touring around Australia and it is available for bookings here and internationally.
Afghanistan - A Survivor's Tale (program extract 10 min.)
Suicide Bomb Afghanistan from Stephen Dupont
Producer: Mark Corcoran
Story/Camera: Stephen Dupont
LINKS
ABC Australia - Foreign Correspondent, Episode 37, 27/05/08.
Synopsis
Stephen Dupont has been capturing striking images of Afghanistan in war and peace since 1993. The suicide bombing outside the police barracks of the town of Khogyani, outside of Jalalabad, was his closest call. Dupont and fellow journalist Paul Raffaele had been planning to join an Afghan police operation to eradicate opium poppies in the area. Acting on instinct, moments after the explosion Dupont pulled out his stills camera and his video recorder and began capturing the confusion and panic. He found himself sheltering with Afghan police as the bomb scene was sprayed with bullets by Taliban attackers. At one stage he filmed himself, blood running down his face, as he searched for Raffaele, not knowing whether he was dead or alive. Dupont’s videotape and photographs reveal the horror of the current weapon of choice of insurgent forces in Afghanistan and Iraq - the indiscriminate killing and maiming of people by suicide bombers.