Writing Here:

duckrabbit
David White
Ciara Leeming
John Macpherson
Peter
Sara Trula
Carl Pendle
Joni Karanka
Mike Lusmore
Madeleine Corcoran

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 who have lost their lives. What justification?

Charities, journalism and PR

Adam Westbrook was one of a number of bloggers who followed up on duckrabbit’s post on MSF’s new cinema advert with a much wider analysis of how charities communicate:

‘At the heart of this lies the important question of how charities choose to spread their word. The public generally are now far less trusting of [...]

It’s true Obama inspires me

you can never fake an interview with a kid.

Phil Coomes, the BBC Picture Editor, has a cracking blog

on the BBC website that takes the name of VIEWFINDER.

I’m hoping that Phil will grant duckrabbit an interview at the end of the Summer. I’m pretty sure that he’s behind most of the BBC’s massive leap forward in the way that it presents imagery. It’s no surprise that the New York Times website is [...]

MSF Cinema advert … what do you think?

WW2 Advert

Every now and then duckrabbit invites people to post here who have more interesting things to say about life than we do. Today its the turn of Pete Masters, MSF Uk’s web guru, a charity that provides medical support in response to humanitarian situations.

Basically they patch people up and save lives [...]

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Thanks Ciara.

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‘I may make bad choices but I’m not a bad person’

Louis Theroux makes great documentaries. He asks the questions that need asking but puts people at ease enough to reveal something honest about themselves. ‘Freaks’ turn into real people in front of your eyes, challenging your perceptions about people.

Its a real shame that people outside the US can’t watch his BBC documentary about Fresno, [...]

Now I know …

With all the jumps in technology do you actually need to go to all this length and expense to take a picture of two phones that ends up looking like this? I mean come on …

Cover creation from Peter Belanger on Vimeo.

More money than sense, I say … that said what [...]

Just read that AP photographer Emilio Morenatti has been badly injured:

‘Emilio Morenatti, a 40-year-old photographer for The Associated Press whose pictures from the Middle East have been likened to artwork, was badly wounded Tuesday in southern Afghanistan when the vehicle in which he was riding was struck by a roadside bomb. The blast also injured Andi Jatmiko, 44, a videographer for A.P. Television News from [...]

Rhubard with lashings of custard

You know how it is. Friday night you’ve planned to go somewhere but everyone else pulls out. It gets to about nine o’clock and you think can I really be arsed? Nine times out of ten I’d lock myself away but a few Friday’s back I pushed myself out the door to go and have [...]

How bad are we at multimedia in the UK?

Take a look at this … damn these guys went all the way to Afghanistan to upload a piece so badly compressed you can hardly see it!

It’s great to compare it to duckrabbit’s last post about a BBC audio slideshow from Afghanistan.

How about some training? Thanks for spotting this ADAM.

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“Its got a skeletal, barren, mortified beauty to it”

Paul Kerley has produced a fascinating audio slideshow about the area of Afghanistan where sadly so many are losing their lives in the fighting (on both sides).

Audio slideshow: The Helmand tour

With high mountains in the north, and an empty desert in the south, the province that is home to British military operations in [...]

Great words of wisdom from David Alan Harvey

‘i do spend a lot of time with young photographers or photographers who are trying to make a mark….the single biggest difference i see between those who “do it” and those who do not is simply the ability to finish what one starts…. yes, of course, talent is a must…visual acuity, sensitivity, spacial awareness, timing, [...]

Boston Big Picture: Typhoon Morakot

In typically brilliant fashion BOSTON BIG PICTURE is running a series on typhoon Morakot, which has been battering vast areas of Asia.

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duckrabbit is tweaking the blog

so if things are a bit all over the place,

sorry.

That’s life.

Dedicated to the one I love

I featured the work of Mishka Henner and Liz Lock on duckrabbit a couple of days ago. I was drawn back to a series on their website this morning called Dedicated to the one I love, which explores the lives of some of the 50000 young people in Britain who have become their parents carers. [...]

duckrabbit welcomes Antonio Jaen

an old mate from Ethiopia who is going to be working with us.

He’ll be scribbling here from time to time.

Multimedia matters

Preston Gannaway’s REMEMBER ME gets my vote.

But of course I wouldn’t be upset if you disagreed and voted for our award winning Kenya Burning.

At least you’d be recognizing the work of a team of people from the developing world. [...]