Portraits of Violence- Stephen Dupont

Although these portraits were published in The Digital Journalist last year, I didn't see much buzz elsewhere on the internets about them, perhaps because they're black and white, perhaps because they just don't fit the current, aforementioned, zombie nation portrait syndrome. Ironically, the penetrating glares that these subjects convey could also be construed as vacant, yet these portraits by Stephen Dupont are some of the most powerful, disturbing, and beautiful I have ever seen...