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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

And I thought my parents were dysfunctional … Michael Jackson eat your heart out

Bobby Robson – a proper diamond Geezer, RIP

F@$%^&g NORMAL!!!

I spent yesterday with a couple of young offenders, aged 15 and 17, trying to teach them a bit about photography.

I was working through the Trinity centre, as I did when I was teaching the NEETS a few months ago. I didn’t have long enough with the lads to really teach them much, just to [...]

From Russia, with love

The New Yorker Magazine must think its ahead of time because this audio slideshow is dated August 3rd 2009.

The feature explores Simon Robert’s year long photographic journey through Siberia starting in July 2004.

Visually its well worth a peek. Short and sweet.

‘We’re living in the age of interruption.’ Joseph Rodriguez

This week on duckrabbit we’re celebrating the work of the American photographer Joseph Rodriguez.

For today’s installment we’re sending you over to RESOLVE where Miki Johnson (who introduced duckrabbit to Rodriguez) is running a fascinating interview with Joseph. It focuses on his work making multimedia with people coming out of the criminal justice system in America.

Powerful [...]

Where it’s at – Joseph Rodriguez (part 3)

Your first lesson in photography

Last night night there was a 3 a.m. banging on duckrabbit’s window.  Joseph Rodriguez’s crazy face pushed up against the glass scaring the shit out of me.

“Benjamin”, he said, “get your lazy arse out of bed. You’re coming out for your first lesson in photography.”

Joseph drove me around the dead streets [...]

Time to come clean, I have a terrible confession to make:

I shot him.

Capa had just given me the mother of all bollockings. I’d got me lefts and me rights muddled and instead of ending up in the throes of battle we found ourselves in a scene out of Heidi. If its not bad enough that a photographers assistant has to work for scratch we’re also [...]

Where it’s at, Joseph Rodriguez (part two)

Recently I wrote a post on RESOLVE about the art of the soliloquy in multimedia. The ‘to be or not to be’ moment, when a character in a play steps out of the action and shares their soul with the audience.

Shakespeare had it cracked.

We want to know what’s going on beneath the skin. We want [...]

Can anybody on this earth explain to me how this is the third most important story on the world’s most read news site?

Wow, is that a great bit of PR? Nuts.

Adam Westbrook your thoughts please?

ADAM:

I wondered that too! It’s a nice coup for Rory Cellan-Jones but its rare to see tech stories get so high up. Quiet news morning maybe? Or maybe the editors are giving in to viewer demands…which is worrying, cos I just noticed [...]

I saw the Obama People Exhibition in Birmingham

Funny, the portrait of Hillary Clinton looked spookily like my Dad in the funeral parlor just before he went up the chimney.

No joke.

The power of blogs (from duckrabbit’s mates at PDN)

PDN contacted two dozen photographers who have been featured in the past year on influential blogs and online galleries to find out how the exposure affected their careers. Increased traffic on their Web sites, invitations to participate in online print auctions, contact from curators and photo editors, placement of images with magazines, and positive feedback [...]

Unforgettable moment driving East on Friday

listening to Bob Dylan for the first time in ages. Felt like I could drive forever:

And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin’,
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world,
Heard one hundred [...]

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Joseph Rodriguez – Where it’s at (part 1)

This week we’re kicking off a new series ‘ Where it’s at’. This is where the finest work we sing about on duckrabbit will go. The stuff that kicks our ass.

Where better to start then with  Joseph Rodriguez?

Regular readers will know that duckrabbit couldn’t give a toss about the tedious cult of the photographer [...]

Henri spoke:

“The purpose of photography is not to be recognized, but to communicate”
HCB

Tattoo immediately on back of left hand.

Vivian Luu

A great quote. I’ve definitely noticed how photographers can stray from capturing an image that conveys a message to shooting photos that shows how good they are at doing what they do.

duckrabbit

I agree Vivian, which is why [...]