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 April 30th, 2009
If I told you that I could put together a full professional video journalist kit for under £600 ($900), including a computer to edit the footage on, you’d probably think I’d lost the plot. You’d be right, I’d have no clue. Not so Adam Westbrook who actually went and did it:
The ultimate budget film making kit
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duckrabbit posted this on April 30th, 2009
After duckrabbit pointed out last week that the MSF photoblog lacked any pictures actually taken by Black Africans we’re happy to report that 84 posts into the blog’s existence an indigenous photographer has finally made the page.
Sweet.
Its says a lot about MSF that one of their webmasters decided to put a link to our original post [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on April 29th, 2009
which country on this planet has the shame of containing the most people displaced from their homes.
No prizes, its Sudan.
But you might be surprised to discover the country that comes second and for a long time was first?
Columbia.
According to some sources over four million people are displaced. That’s half the population of London forced from their [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on April 27th, 2009
then fade away …
Expiration notice 3, the best yet (and some):
Bill Vaccaro- Jesus Is On The Mainline
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duckrabbit posted this on April 27th, 2009
Headlines can be incredibly misleading. Why does this matter? Because many people only read the headlines.
Here’s one I spotted today:
To glance at this is a call by the Kenyan Prime Minister for a general election. If true that’s a massive story.
However a further look at the story reveals that:
There’s a big difference between someone calling for [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on April 27th, 2009
I think duckrabbit would be a yardstick short of humanity to comment too much on For Their Own Good.
Its brutal.
duckrabbit takes its many hats right off. Important, unforgettable stuff.
They were screwed-up kids, sent to the reform school in Marianna for smoking, fighting, stealing cars or worse. The Florida School for Boys — that’d straighten them out.
Fifty [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on April 25th, 2009
Interesting how this BBC audio slideshow works equally as well as a radio piece … just goes to show its really the audio that makes these pieces, you can get away with a few dodgy pictures, but never with bad audio.
Audio slideshow: African banjos
The banjo is a staple of American country, bluegrass and folk music, but [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on April 24th, 2009
duckrabbit has had a flurry of visitors following our recent post about MSF’s photoblog.
It seems to have touched a nerve.
Unless you go and live in a part of Africa its impossible to explain how fundamentally flawed the understanding of Africa is in the majority of peoples minds. Its actually quite mind blowing how different much [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on April 24th, 2009
Two days ago duckrabbit wrote some thoughts about MSF’s photoblog.
Bruno De Cock from MSF took the trouble to respond.
Nice article, and you highlight some issues that we do care about. As you said, it’s obviously harder for African photographers to get spotted and get assignments. We’d love to make contact with more local talent, so far, [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on April 24th, 2009
Outside our parliament as I write this a young Sri Lankan is starving himself to death. It is statement of utter desperation to be heard, for the suffering of his people to be taken seriously.
Here are two extraordinary photographs that I sourced from the BBC.
As you may know the Tamil Tigers have fallen back into a [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on April 22nd, 2009
I’m a big fan of MSF. I seldom give to big charities because the money is often better spent in smaller ones that are closer to the people they serve BUT if you were to hold a gun to my head and tell me to empty my pockets for a charity I’d be hoping it went [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on April 21st, 2009
run by anna stevens and emily graham.
But its featuring a piece of multimedia that to be frank is complete crap.
You can tell the photographer thinks he’s God Gift, but a on eyed parrot with Tourette’s syndrome could take better photos. No doubt one probably has.
As for the audio, I’d rather cheese grate my ear off [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on April 20th, 2009
Audio slideshow: The Columbine shootings
The murder in April 1999 of 13 people at a Colorado high school – by two heavily armed pupils – sent shockwaves across the US.
After their shooting spree, Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, killed themselves.
Here – using BBC Radio archive – we recall how events unfolded that day.
RESPONSE
VAL:
poignant images… [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on April 20th, 2009
“Through this series I am striving to make sense of the world I have witnessed, the visual noise I encounter every day. These are not passive images. They have tension, conflict, action and reaction. They are photographic language in full discourse.”
Ed Kashi
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duckrabbit posted this on April 20th, 2009
As expected in this Bob Krist audio slideshow on the Wall Street Journal the photography is breathtaking. It makes me ooze with jealously to be a part of the world his photographs inhabit.
“For me a good travel photograph not only captures what a place looks like, but what it feels like, it captures the spirit of [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on April 20th, 2009
but its worth watching just to hear the guy crack up with laughter, one minute forty seconds in.
Audio slideshow: South African shebeen
South African shebeens – drinking dens in residential areas – are under threat in the
Western Cape province, as the authorities try to crack down on the thousands of bars
operating without licences, saying they breed crime.
The [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on April 20th, 2009
duckrabbit’s partner in crime David White has been working on a cracking story about a village on Salisbury Plain (where Stonehenge is found) that suffered a forced evacuation during the first world war. The Yanks wanted it to practice close combat, ready for the planned invasion of mainland Europe.
I’ve been editing David’s audio today, (which would [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on April 18th, 2009
Be warned this is both an important and distressing audio slideshow about the current humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka that is not getting the media attention that it deserves.
Two weekends ago 100000 people marched in London to protest, three times more people then marched in the recent G20 protests in London and yet the protest hardly [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on April 17th, 2009
As an artist you have to decide what path you are going to walk down.
You have to decide what you want to do with your life, who you want to speak to, who you want to speak for.
You need a vision and you need a cause.
You need patience and you need hope.
Maximiliano Braun is one such [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on April 16th, 2009
Here’s a great way to get a story placed in a newspaper, or on a website.
Just predict something spectacular that might happen … like for example ‘U2 might be playing in my garden tonight.”
If it doesn’t come true no-one can accuse you of being a liar. If you’re lucky someone will be stupid enough to write [...]
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