Ami Vitale: ‘Why are photographers so frightened of change?’.

'It has always been a struggle to find support even since I began. Just because magazines and newspapers are going through a difficult period does not reduce the need for great storytelling and I......

A mantra for photographers?.

"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue......

labour pains.

Words cannot describe how harrowing I just found this Washington Post multimedia piece on the poor maternal and child mortality rates in Sierra......

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'There comes a time in your life when you meet undercover Police for the first time. Either when they admit it to you in some Hotel bar hiccuping over way too much Oban......

Take that Nikon!…facebook on the Canon 5d mkII..

I posted here a few days ago about the incongruous addition of space invaders on the Nikon D3X. Not to be outdone, Canon fans have been working hard on providing something equally useful/useless on......

“Jack wasn’t going to get killed.”.

Paul Kerley has produced a powerful audio slideshow about  a father who lost his son in Afghanistan.  It works on so many levels. First off it shows that you don't need great pictures for......

unsettling business (Guardian audio slideshow).

Legend has it that a stranger bearing good news appeared on a hilltop near what is now Beit Sahour one fateful night 2,000......

The Travel Photographer: POV: Reuters Blog: f8 & Be There.

Probably my favorite blog in the world is THE TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHER.  No regular readers of that blog, or this one, needs any explanation why. Today I'm taking a total liberty and lifting......

Facing reality.

The American dream seems to belong to movies, novels and political speeches. For some immigrants in North Carolina,......

What kind of world are we living in?.

Those that passed by should be rounded up stuck in a boat and told to row for Africa. Bastards....

How to get your D3X to play space invaders:.

After a few brews the other night, I got to pressing lots of buttons on my D3X. There are more menu items, sub menu items, sub, sub menu items etc on that camera than......

The Bangladesh Project – Geoffrey Hiller.

It seems that every great photograph is coming out of Bangladesh right now, just when duckrabbit is about to set off there! Bangladesh Project is a record of Geoffrey Hiller's year there teaching interactive......

Good audio is like a bad dog.

Many great photographers make really bad audio slideshows because they treat audio as afterthought, or they try to do a voiceover without having any presentation skills. They might as well not bother. Actually I'd go further......

‘What will it take to slap his face?’.

A couple of days back duckrabbit and Pete Masters,  head of web at MSF UK,  sparked off a pretty heated,......

‘What happens if you break someone’s heart will they still love you?’.

Sometimes the things that people type into google that bring them to duckrabbit floor me....

Journalism and charities, the other side.

duckrabbit has been having a debate over the last couple of days about the detrimental nature of some charities communications.  A long time ago we labeled it the 'Africa is f**ked, now give us......

duckrabbit would like to pay our respects to the 200 British troops who have been killed in Afghanistan..

They paid the ultimate price for a world in which hatred is the fuel that turns the wheel.  Our hearts go out to their families. Our hearts also go out to the many innocent Afghans......