What they say about duckrabbit: 'One of the hazards of publishing a well-known photojournalism blog - getting multimedia like yours, where the photos are both powerful and moving, and I end up in tears at my desk.'
Alan Taylor, Boston Big Picture)
'David White's multimedia work with duckrabbit is very exciting.'
Kate Edwards (Guardian Magazine Picture Editor)
'I am a fan of duckrabbit. I am not a fan because I agree with everything Ben has to say, but because he says it without frills and then will spend the time necessary to engage the consequent discussions. Such commitment is a priceless commodity.'
Prison Photography
'I met one of them at an academic conference in the summer. He was the sanest person there, but sure enough by damn gadnabbit ruffled more than a few fluffed up peacock feathers.'
The Photography Pages
'If you haven't seen the duckrabbit blog on multimedia you should.'
Stephen Alvarez
'duckrabbit has done another jaw-dropping job with Condition Critical, a highly commendable and important project for Medecins Sans Frontiers.'
The Travel Photographer
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duckrabbit posted this on September 30th, 2008
It probably has to go down as one of the dumbest questions I’ve heard in a radio interview:
“Have you figured what made this one¬† (picture) stand out and be so compelling?”
Click on the picture to see view an audio slideshow with photojournalist Chris [...]
duckrabbit posted this on September 30th, 2008
National Geographic did a great story not long ago about female wrestlers in Bolivia.  Personally I think the photographer Chico Sanchez has gone one better with his slideshow about masked Mexican wrestlers.
Did you know that the first masked wrestler in Mexico was an Irishman?  NO!
Again I think there’s quite a few layers [...]
duckrabbit posted this on September 29th, 2008
This is a clip from a radio programme I made for the BBC a few years ago.¬† I dug it out for some training sessions I gave to the recent Prison Radio Association annual conference and I’m pleased to say it went down a storm with many requests for copies afterwards.
Again it proves [...]
duckrabbit posted this on September 27th, 2008
Interactive Narratives is a great source of of multimedia coming out of America and they’ve just pulled out an absolute peach (courtesy of the New York Times). Its a lesson in characterization and absolute proof that audio can drive a piece, even if you have a limited (but decent) set of photos.¬† Its also [...]
duckrabbit posted this on September 26th, 2008
to make such a beautiful slice of multimedia … you think you’d let people see it in quality (those that have broadband)¬† None the less HATS OFF. (no audio till 1 min 30).¬† A great spot by multimediamuse. Produced by the Brazilian agency CIA DE FOTO.
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duckrabbit posted this on September 25th, 2008
duckrabbit posted this on September 25th, 2008
If you haven’t yet seen The Girl Effect don’t¬† waste your time reading the rest of this post just click on the picture.¬† A lesson in brilliant thoughtful, thought provoking communications. Inspired.
duckrabbit posted this on September 25th, 2008
Even though I don’t speak German this audio slideshow by photgrapher Peter Vogel is VERY powerful.
Peter writes:
The intertitles explain: Long Time detainees work on a self made adaptation of Brechts “Rise and Fall of the city of Mahagonny”. There will be never a public show. The prison does not allow. So at [...]
duckrabbit posted this on September 22nd, 2008
It was by chance that David White and I came across the magical Carters Steam Fair. The piece was shot in day and edited in a couple more.
Family and friends will notice some familiar extras in this audio slideshow.¬† Let’s just say at duckrabbit we like to keep it in the family. As [...]
duckrabbit posted this on September 22nd, 2008
This audio slideshow by Shane Bauer shook me up.
It’s one of the very few in which the audio matches the images … both haunt. Watch it.
duckrabbit posted this on September 18th, 2008
I first met David White in the lobby of a hotel on the banks of the Nile in Egypt.  I thought he was alright but when I saw his photos it was love at first sight.  A few years previously I  stumbled across a Sebastiao Salgado exhibition in Liverpool. I had no idea who [...]
duckrabbit posted this on September 18th, 2008
This is a really interesting soundslides that flags up the limitations of the medium. Its been produced by Alex Massey, a British based photographer, who spent 3 months hanging out with squatters living in million dollar houses in London.  Journalistically the idea is fascinating and Alex produces some interesting images. The piece is a [...]
duckrabbit posted this on September 15th, 2008
So as I said David and I spent a great day working a shoot at Carter’s steam fair.¬† I’ve been hassling David for a photo all day (why doesn’t anyone get excited about audio in the same way) and one’s just popped up in my inbox … its taken me about a minute to [...]
duckrabbit posted this on September 15th, 2008
As I keep saying there’s a lot of great media coming out of America. They have embraced digital storytelling and are producing some stellar results.
If you haven’t discovered On The Road Media yet, a company that specializes in digital storytelling, check out their site.
I find their projects compelling.  Tight, unnerving, unflinching, packed [...]
duckrabbit posted this on September 15th, 2008
David and I have been busy over the Weekend working out at opposite ends of the social spectrum. Saturday night we were in Bristol City centre shooting for a piece we’re doing on the British brand of late night town centre drinking culture.¬† It’s a resurrection of a project that David did a couple [...]
duckrabbit posted this on September 7th, 2008
There’s a nice audio slideshow on Reuters called Christians Rock. Its basically a snapshot of an American Christian Rock festival …what I like is that its not trying to be anything .. its a ‘capture piece’ in that it just captures a place in time … judgments are left to the viewer.
It’s also [...]
duckrabbit posted this on September 6th, 2008
Am I the only person to think that ‘audio slideshow‘ is a terrible name for the medium? It’s like calling films ‘audio moving pictures’!¬† Anybody got a better name?
duckrabbit posted this on September 6th, 2008
The projects called ‘Wisdom’.¬† It’s receiving widespread love. It will probably be a number one seller in America.
Basically it involves the photographer Andrew Zuckermen (and his team) traveling the world to interview famous people about what ‘wisdom’ means.¬† Nothing wrong with this except he manages to make it mind numbingly bland and boring. [...]
duckrabbit posted this on September 5th, 2008
This is the article of mine the New Statesman published last week about the reality faced by the hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the post election violence in Kenya.
The audio slideshows here on duckrabbit are more recent versions than those published on the NewStatesman website. You can watch them here and [...]
duckrabbit posted this on September 5th, 2008
This is a really interesting website …basically a load of photo journalists rock up to a rural town for a week and record stories…not as straightforward as it sounds… The Americans are really leading the way on this kind of stuff … at duckrabbit we feel it can have an important role to play [...]
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