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Joni Karanka
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PA 5@5

I was asked to do a day shift for the Press Association last Friday. Not something I usually do, but that’s more ‘cos I don’t get asked than cos I don’t want to..I love chasing the news. Anyway. I was asked to go to Wootton Bassett, which is a small town/village near RAF Lyneham. The [...]

Tonight, I’m too sad to tell you

so I asked my mate Stephen to do it for me …

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OOH LA LA – Two students con Paris Match’s photojournalism prize

According to the BJP

‘French magazine Paris Match was the victim of a hoax when it was revealed that this year’s winners of its Photojournalism Award had faked their images.

Every year, Paris Match, which remains one of the last weekly magazine to give predominant space to photography, organises its ‘Grand Prix Paris Match [...]

The negativity of news

This headline says it all. Apparently Bruce played an absolute blinder of a gig, but this is what the Times of London decides to lead with:

Why?

That’s part of news culture I’m afraid. Negativity sells. Or does it?

This is a particularly poor attempt to create controversy out of nothing. Quite frankly it [...]

How to wear shorts…pioneering multimedia:

Ok…I thought this was a joke, but, oh no…there is an odd multimedia piece (ie video) on the Grauniad front page.. take a minute…watch…contemplate…retch.

SHORTS ARE IMPORTANT…NEVER FORGET.

No Light Lost On The Blind Boys

The Travel Photographer (always a great source of inspiration) has introduced me to the Blind Boys.

This is how they introduce themselves

Idea

Charles Harbutt said, “A writer can write in a void (many do). Beethoven was deaf. Sculptors can sculpt and painters paint miles and years from the sources of their vision. But [...]

A slip of the tongue

This will give you a good laugh

Live Radio .. you can’t beat it.

Thanks Martin

Michael Jackson, RIP

Favorite headlines (3)

Hot off the press:

Another headline straight out of a Kafka novel

From the BBC

I’m having a great day for spotting things that make me laugh

Just been checking out PRISON PHOTOGRAPHY where Pete Brook should get an award for his comparison between American and British criminals. Having worked in a prison all I can say is ‘NO COMMENT’.

In America there are gangsta’s, crack heads and wild kids. In Britain there thugs, scallies and pill-poppers – these are broad categories [...]

Is this the most absurdly long bio to put on the front of an article you’ve ever seen?

The person who wrote this must have been fearing for their working life in case they left something out, but from the readers point of view its frankly ridiculous.

Mind you I wouldn’t want to play ‘my Mums bigger than your Mum’ with one of this ladies kids.

Favorite Headlines (readers suggestions)

‘Minister quits over Brown ’smears’ ‘Trapped nude with a dryer on his head’

Man said ‘wombat rape’ led to accent change Rum the remedy for snake bite on penis THANKS TO CIARA AND GRANT. You did us proud.

Favorite Headlines (number 2)

This is a cracker. I had to check the date to see if it’s April 1st.

Photography that is out of this world

Check out this audio slideshow running on the BBC.

There’s a film doing the rounds

that shows a young Iranian woman dying from what we now know is a gunshot wound.

I haven’t watched the film, nor do I intend do. I know that its just going to upset me and make me feel helpless. More helpless.

Over on BURN someone has commented about the situation in Iran

‘TWITTER 5 [...]

Muna Ahmed

welcome to duckrabbit.

duckrabbit V Weston super Mare

That’s where we’re heading for next months duckrabbit multimedia training.

BBC – The rise of hate 2.0

duckrabbit encourages debate on all social issues and believes that photography has a massive role on the web in bringing new light to issues that affect us all. One of those issues is prejudice, which comes from cultural poverty, financial poverty and a lack of understanding of one another.

Unfortunately, as this article on the [...]