Irina Dvalidze showcases a powerful project on gangsters:
The Raskols are one of the most dominant gangs in the Port Moresby, New Guinea. Sydney-based photographer Stephen Dupont‘s first encounter with the gangs was during the ‘Kips Kaboni’ (Scar Devils) tribal conflict, following a murder of a Motu woman. The murder led to a rampage avenging her death and further violence. Dupont was given an opportunity to document the events which earned him the trust from the community, consequently enabling him to produce the portrait series.
How Dupont described his process:
My aim was to show the face behind the facelessness of gang culture really. An expose of a dark side of the human condition.
(Image: from Raskols: The Gangs of Papua New Guinea by Stephen Dupont, published by powerHouse Books)
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