Writing Here:

duckrabbit
David White, photographer
Ciara Leeming
Adam Westbrook
Carl Pendle
Joseph Rodriguez
Martin-Nachtwey

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

Howlett/Brunel prints, portraits and commissions.

Hi everyone. I am very touched by the warm and generous response to my Howlett camera images as featured on the Today Programme and here on the BBC website.. Thankyou all.

In response to many requests for prints of the images, I have decided to put them on my archive so that prints can be ordered. They [...]

Welcome to visitors from the BBC website

I thought David White, duckrabbit’s photographer, gave a terrific interview at 8.55 on BBC Radio 4′s Today programme this morning( one of the BBC’s most influential news and current affairs programme).¬† David was talking about his project to photograph Brunel’s heritage using a replica of the camera that photographed Brunel. The blog Nigeness has captured [...]

DuckRabbit’s David White on BBC Radio 4′s Today programme

The Today programme is according to wikipedia ‘ the most influential news programme in Britain’, which makes me wonder why has it taken so long to get David White on the show?

Fingers crossed he’ll be making an appearance tomorrow morning at 8.40.

David is a founding member of duckrabbit.¬† If you haven’t noticed he’s a bloody good [...]

I loves you Porgy …

Ever since I discovered her in Bob’s Record Mart, a ramshackle second hand music shop down a back alley in Nottingham, I’ve always felt lucky to have Nina Simone in my life.

Alongside a battered copy of Raymond Carver’s poems, and a Peruvian blanket I inherited from my Sister Becky, Nina travels with me everywhere [...]

Are you at home amongst the dead?

They say that you don’t get much foreign news in America but I’ve watched some really great audio slideshows on American news sites that focus on foreign stories.¬† Who can forget Carol Guzy’s series on women who die in childbirth in Sierra Leone?

In the Los Angeles Times there’s a beautifully presented international story about the life [...]

just don’t say I didn’t black and white you …

Yesterday on duckrabbit I alluded to the fact that I sometimes wish we saw more color photos of Africa, particularly when we see images of conflict.¬† Someone from Australia wrote to me saying ‘who gives a damn what the pictures are shot in, its the message that counts’.

I completely agree, that’s why its important how a [...]

I am trying to break your heart (part seven)

In the past I’ve been mildly critical of some of Media Storm’s productions, pretty much peerless in production values though they are.

They always look and sound great but sometimes they spend too much time gazing into the beautifully lit features of a photographers face, as opposed to examining their photographs, and sometimes the voices of those [...]

Feline post production.

Archive, back up, archive, back up, archive, back up etc etc ad infinitum.

Every snapper knows that the above is what you should do in this beautiful digital age. Back in the day however, when dinosaurs still roamed Frampton Cotterell, I kept my precious transparencies in a box behind the comfy chair in my living room. My [...]

Happy birthday International space station!

Today (20.11.08) is the 10th anniversary of the launch of the International space station.

Quite an achievement..

Above is a audio slideshow of the edit set of pics I shot at Star City, Russia’s cosmonaut training centre, where the cosmonauts were training and preparing for life aboard the ISS. (We threw this together this morning in about an [...]

Stan Banos – on duckrabbit

Natural writers are few and far between so when I started raving about the words on the blog Reciprocity Failure I was being entirely sincere.

Stan Banos’ blog is so much more intelligent then the pundits who take themselves far too seriously, don’t allow comments (that would be mixing with the riff raff), and whose efforts to [...]

Naming ceremony, Glastonbury Tor

(C) David White

Afternoon,

Above is a shot that means a lot to me for various reasons. It was taken half way up Glastonbury Tor back in 2002. ¬†My friend’s baby, pictured far right, was to be named in a ceremony conducted by the local druids, on the morning of the Spring equinox. We had all stopped [...]

Pushkar Camel Fair – audio slideshow by Art Wolfe

duckrabbit thinks that this is a fantastic example of how to create a sense of place in an audio slideshow.

So many audio slideshows are turned into a borefest by a reporter laconically reading back a script that was written for print and NEVER should be read for audio. Its such a turn off and that’s exactly [...]

‘The Fallen’ – this is why the BBC matters

Benjamin

I pretty much never watch TV. For most of my life I haven’t even owned one.¬† Not that I have anything against TV, I love it. That’s the problem.¬† No TV, problem solved.

Saturday night though I found I was up in front of one waiting for Match of the day to start.  I flicked over [...]

duckrabbit interview and audio slideshow on New Radio Strategies

Benjamin

Nice to see the excellent website New Radio Strategies turning to duckrabbit for a discussion on whether audio slideshows are the future of radio?

Clearly not.

Radio is the future of radio, but audio slideshows can have an influential role in driving people to great radio.

By the way I’m not the guy in the photo … that was [...]

Nothing to do with photography but

its Saturday night and I just couldn’t resist:

this is a real question by the way I came across on the web.

Hiroshima..the lost photographs.

Here is a very powerful piece..

All about a set of found images of the devastation wrought upon Hiroshima in 1945.

“The lack of visual evidence of the atom bomb‚Äôs effect has helped us to forget its devastating impact. To see is to remember. Up until now, there have been few publicly available images of what happened on [...]

EPUK

Take a stroll over to EPUK,
and have a look at the pic of Einsteins’s brain..

EPUK is a great resource for all photographers and photojournalists, and the heart of it is the email list where togs can ask each other all sorts of business related questions. The members consist of some very experienced and knowledgeable people. Well [...]

Random pic

I shall try to post a pic or two every now and then..today I am going to show you a few shots that I have submitted to the AOP‘s
red dot auction in aid of photovoice.. a very good cause, and a site well worth checking out.

Above is a shot I took of young Russian sailors filing [...]

Reciprocity Failure … file under success.

If you haven’t read the blog Reciprocity Failure yet, then you’re reading the wrong blog (painfully honest we are at duckrabbit). Its better then Bukowski. Much.

Yesterday had a classic entry:

Monday, November 10, 2008
Passing Gas…
Back in the pre-internet days, I had the privilege of twenty five years of gallery hopping every major and minor photo gallery in [...]

duckrabbit remembers the horror of war – BBC audio slideshow

To me there is few more moving sounds then that of the Last Post being played.

Over the years I made several documentaries in Flanders, scene of such devastation during the First World war. Those experiences changed me in a way I could not have foretold. Connecting me with the past and instilling in me a respect [...]