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David White, photographer
Ciara
Adam Westbrook
Joseph Rodriguez

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

duckrabbit training is delighted to announce

that Daniel Cuthbert will be pounding the streets of London with us. He’s signed up for an audio for photographers course on September 24th led by the radio documentaries and multimedia producer Benjamin Chesterton.

Duckrabbit looks forward to meeting you Daniel and in the meantime we’re digging your pics.

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 believe now is a perfect time to find opportunity and recreate ourselves for other mediums. I feel it’s a glorious time [...]

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 beauty
to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what
is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to [...]

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 Leone. It’s powerful stuff…and the production is measured and doesn’t hammer you over the head with the awfulness of the situation. And there’s no doubt that it’s awful. I have to say [...]

‘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 whiskey or when you are caught in a South London brothel being arrested for sex trafficking. My first encounter came while I [...]

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 the 5dmkII. Over on his technoblog, camhackerrzz has reverse engineered Canon’s wireless ftp file transmitter (WFT-E4) using the CHDK protocols to provide [...]

“Jack wasn’t going to get killed.”

BBC audio slideshow, Father and Son, on [...]

Well worth checking out

Amazing Advice on Audio for Multimedia by Adam Westbrook

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 years ago. Today other visitors are making their way to this tiny Palestinian town just east of Bethlehem, believed to be site of the biblical Shepherd’s Field – where the Angel [...]

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 completely a post over at The Travel Photographer. Why?  Because it’s important stuff and unfortunately you can’t leave comments on The Travel Photographer, but [...]

Facing reality

The American dream seems to belong to movies, novels and political speeches. For some immigrants in North Carolina, the story is a very different one, closer to a nightmare than to anything else.

Eileen Mignoni depicts in Facing Deportation the impact of North Carolina’s immigration policies on the families of those who [...]

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 on any I’ve ever seen. It’s quite ridiculous really, but hidden away deep in the bowels of the Nikon firmware is [...]

Audio Slideshow- The fisherman of Valparaiso

This is a lovely, slight but evocative portrait of  a Chilean fisherman by the talented young multimedia producer Gabriel M. Ortega.

It’s great to see and hear new voices coming out of South America.  If you haven’t already you should also check out the work of Chicho Sanchez one of duckrabbit’s favorite multimedia storytellers.

THANKS Gabriel for [...]