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.'
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duckrabbit posted this on October 31st, 2008
It takes eight pictures to tell the full horror of Iraq.
You can keep your bloodied photos of streets littered with limbs,¬† soldiers in smithereens, shrapnel torn children¬† limp in their parents arms, you can keep them all … Andrea Bruce’s set of photos in the Washington Post¬† told me everything.
Go and find out yourself. (leave [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on October 30th, 2008
Here is something great from a Magnum photographer that entertains. The Places We Live, by Jonas Bendiksen, is a really interesting multimedia piece on the bleak conditions that the majority of the world find themselves living in.
As always the work would be a lot stronger with audio that matches the quality of the photographs. It [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on October 30th, 2008
I said that.
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duckrabbit posted this on October 28th, 2008
A couple of posts ago I highlighted Magnum in Motion’s worthy attempt to ram home a message about the affect of global warming on developing nations.
Here’s another, more tightly focused attempt to persuade us that the earth is slowly drowning in CO2.¬† Maybe it works because its rooted in the familiar, in the industrialized world?
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duckrabbit posted this on October 27th, 2008
The BBC is reporting that rebel troops in Eastern Congo have taken over the headquarters of Virunga national park, home to one of the last surviving populations of mountain gorillas.
Recent conflict in Congo and its aftermath has led to the estimated deaths of a staggering 5.4 million people, a figure impossible for me to compute. [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on October 26th, 2008
It was by chance that I came across the photography of Yasuyoshi Chiba in Kenya earlier this year and its great to see that I’m not the only one to recognize the importance of his work capturing the post election violence.
Earlier this year Yasuyoshi was one of four photographers nominated for the prestigious Visa d’Or, [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on October 25th, 2008
You have to admire someone for even trying to turn a UNDP report on climate change into a sexy piece of multimedia, even Orson Welles would have failed.   Its an impossible task.
Magnum in Motion’s One Planet, One Chance would have perhaps been better titled One Planet, No Chance.¬†¬† Personally I had no chance of following [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on October 24th, 2008
“The problem with a lot of documentary photography on conflict is that people are used to seeing them.¬† I’ve become a bit immune to the images and what they meant to me and I felt that if I could do something that made the people look like real people, that you can look in their [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on October 22nd, 2008
Guard (talking to a prisoner through a door) “You feeling OK today?”
Prisoner “I’m depressed.”
Guard “Depressed? Yeah its one of those days. You er, not hearing the voices today?”
Prisoner: “Not really”
Guard “Not really, good, good, good. How’s those bullet holes, they healing up nicer?”
as GRIM as anything I’ve seen.
Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on October 22nd, 2008
It’s a mistake all creatives make when they first start working a new format, over complicating things. When I first started making audio slideshows I used a lot of panning to bring movement to the pieces. The actual effect is to leave the viewer feeling seasick.
There is another reason why you should limit the [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on October 21st, 2008
last week¬† I stunned duckrabbit blog readers by revealing (via the BBC news website) that Ricky Gervais is ‘wary of presenting the Oscars’.¬† Today BBC news have outdone themselves with what surely will be a Pulitzer award winning follow up to that story.¬† Apparently Ricky Gervais ‘reads his own reviews’.¬† I know mindblowing isn’t it!
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duckrabbit posted this on October 19th, 2008
was the worst day of my life.¬† I got a phone call, three days before Christmas, eleven fifteen in the morning, still in my pajamas, pottering round the kitchen, my brother telling me something that I just couldn’t comprehend, Dad just a few days ago sat laughing in the kitchen, making snowstorms with my boys, [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on October 19th, 2008
“I’ve got this feeling that I can never quite trust anyone.”
These are the first words uttered in this eloquent soliloquy on life produced by the Bombay Flying Club.
73 years old Ingolf Osterby has tuned his back on post modernity and is living out a frugal existence in the woods.
A multi layered meditation on life and [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on October 17th, 2008
Its a terrible, shocking story and one that the world should be ashamed of. In Sierra Leone, one in eight women die in childbirth, a problem that gets little attention from international donors who are far more focused on global health threats such as malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.
The American photographer Carol Guzy traveled to Sierra [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on October 17th, 2008
With all that is going on in the world right now its hard to comprehend how the world’s biggest news site thinks that this badly written article should be one of its top stories. The story: Rick Gervais may or may not present the Oscars, but if he is actually asked he may or may [...]
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