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 February 28th, 2009
pierces my heart like nothing I’ve seen in a long time.
Any outsider who has lived in Africa and had their mind seared with images of children and soldiers will understand.
Its taken from a series on Congo in TIME.
(first spotted on the priceless blog The Travel Photographer)
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duckrabbit posted this on February 27th, 2009
none will do it justice.
‘They have this look in their eyes and you could tell truly something was not right with them anymore”
recalls photographer David Gilkey.
This has one of the most stilling pieces of audio you will ever hear. Not contrived, just true, honest, a photographer bewildered by what they have just witnessed.
Audio isn’t about [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on February 27th, 2009
The difference between wanting to live, or not, is everything.
That’s something you’ll have to go through a depression and come out the other side to understand.
Without drugs.
In the meantime here’s Bon Iver,
I couldn’t begin to explain what this song means to me …. press play and go about your business.
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duckrabbit posted this on February 26th, 2009
All those interested in the history of photography will love this.
‘Underappreciated during his life, Mathew Brady is known for his Civil War photography and groundbreaking work in the field’:
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David White, photographer posted this on February 26th, 2009
Hi. I got a shock this morning when I opened my emails to find a message saying that one of my pics has made it into¬†the 150 which will make up the new “fresh M.I.L.K” book. Not bad, even though there was only 149 entries Actually the last one had over 40,000 entries. [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on February 26th, 2009
Honestly I dunno what it is but I just need to get ‘dogs’ out of my system, and I promise this is the last mention of them on the blog for a while.
Maybe its because I did my growing up listening to Nick Drake, whose song ‘a black eyed dog’ is a terrifying lament to [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on February 26th, 2009
duckrabbit¬† just discovered the Durham Centre for Advanced Photography Studies, attached to one of the UK’s most prestigious Universities.
Wow I thought this must be a great place and rushed to their website
which is so advanced I couldn’t find a single photograph!
Blink, Blink.
Update:
David Campbell, an academic who has produced some really interesting work (more on that [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on February 25th, 2009
off Manchester Photography which is the blog most likely to make duckrabbit laugh out loud (in a good way)
Mark Page is a gobshite agitator eye poker of the highest order … he’s the Mark E Smith of blogging, but better, and I absolutely love this picture.
Whoever said that its grim up North?
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duckrabbit posted this on February 25th, 2009
Carol Guzy. Who incidentally took the photographs for the most important multimedia project anywhere on the web last year.
What’s really interesting is that the photograph was originally taken in colour.
Here’s the one that received recognition in this years POY awards:
(C) Carol Guzy
And here’s how the picture originally appeared in the Washington Post (its [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on February 25th, 2009
POY doesn't list the photographer but as soon as I find out I'll let you know!
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duckrabbit posted this on February 24th, 2009
The incredible Photo Histories delivers exactly what it promises:
‘Before digital technology has transformed photography into something new and very different from what we understand it to be today there are accounts to be told by some of the great practitioners of the medium and by the many talented individuals who have found photography capable of [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on February 23rd, 2009
What’s the problem with this headline taken from the Guardian?
The answer might explain why the BBC refused to broadcast a Gaza appeal.
Nothing got people more upset, me amongst them, than this headline.
First off you think, bastards they are bombing school kids. Most people wouldn’t have read any further.
It turns out that actually the school had [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on February 23rd, 2009
Picture Of The Year photo competition (spot news)
I asked Stan Banos of Reciprocity Failure fame to explain why.
(Unfortunately¬† POY is listing the winning entries but not who took the photos.¬† Maybe its so that ‘names’ don’t get in the way of how we look at photos. I think that’s to be applauded but perhaps they [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on February 22nd, 2009
duckrabbit has long thought that a well produced audio slideshow can match a video news feature, and this proves it.
Emma Lynch has been bouncing them around the BBC website for some time but this sobering feature on drug related violence in the Mexican town of Ciudad Juarez is enough to put a horse’s head into [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on February 21st, 2009
bang it tells its story and then its gone again.
The problem is so many thoughtful photos get left behind.
It’s frightening how little we see of the pictures that really matter.
I only became aware of this when looking through Yasuyoshi Chiba’s photos of the Kenyan conflict.¬† If you were just to see the pictures the editors [...]
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