Stephen Dupont’s photographic mishaps celebrate chance and imperfection in Fucked Up Fotos. The series spans thirty years, five continents and more than a dozen countries, including Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, China, and Romania. It is a catalogue of everything that can go wrong in photography, featuring double-exposures, light leaks, X-ray clouding, and corrupted computer files.

Despite unintended damage to his images, Dupont finds spectacular beauty within the frame. This exhibition is a celebration of the accidental, the unpredictable, and the imperfect, returning to the primal magic of photography and its ability to capture something beyond intent. Fucked Up Fotos is a showcase of the unexpected and the remarkable in the most unlikely places, a meditation on chance and the power of photography to capture the unforeseen.

Main image: Stephen Dupont, Tim Page, Sydney, 2013
Image carousel: Stephen Dupont, Havana Cuba, 2013; Stephen Dupont, Western NSW, 1990