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The Jack Bell Gallery in London, UK presents an exhibition of Stephen Dupont’s Raskol and Sing-Sing portraits. These images are all part of the larger body of work for which Dupont was recently awarded the 2010 Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography by Harvard University.

Polaroid 665 film renders these prints with a beautiful tonal range and a physical appearance quite unlike other gelatin silver prints. The telltale border is the outcome of splitting apart the negative from the positive – a process producing an immediate print that can be offered to the subject. The negatives are beautiful and finely grained, but also fragile and often haunted by scratches, streaks, or unprocessed corners or holes. The result is a finished print that seems to mesh perfectly with the subject, as if the physical processing of the film somehow captured the essence of each situation.

Contact Press Images congratulates former Contact contributing photographer Louie Psihoyos, who won an Oscar for Best Feature Documentary for his film "The Cove," about a secret dolphin cove in Taiji, Japan, which is the site of the largest slaughter of dolphins in the world.

Psihoyos assembled a team of activists and special ops experts to covertly film the documentary using cameras suspended by mini ballons, helicopters and hidden in fake rocks around the cove. The film makers conducted raids on the secret dolphin cove for two killing seasons in spite of being followed by the police who had 24-hour surveillance on the film.

David Burnett lectured and presented images from his book 44 Days: Iran and the Remaking of the World at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.

The event was moderated by Robert Litwak, Vice President for Programs and Director of International Security Studies at the Wilson Center.

C-Span was there to capture the event. Click to watch the video.