Writing Here:

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

Italy, a cesspit of corruption?

There is a heartfelt debate going on at Lightstalkers about the current state of media freedom in Italy and how photojournalists might be able to respond.

It makes for sober reading.

Miss HIV, Botswana

MISS HIV STIGMA FREE 2007 BOTSWANA..TSHEBETSO THOBOLO comes on stage at the MISS HIV pageant to great applause. (c) David White

Stories about HIV and AIDS in Africa are often presented as either one of polar opposites. There are the news outlets who tend to publish negative stories, sometimes with a picture [...]

duckrabbit are off to Bangladesh for a couple of weeks

thanks to the lovely people at the CBA.

I’m sure I’ll get a chance to make a post or two whilst I’m over there and one or two people from duckrabbit’s family will be posting.

We’ve had a lot of interest in our training the last few weeks and we are planning a three day [...]

Photojournalism in Russia, not exactly blooming (from Perpignan)

Audio Slidehow – A kick in the bricks (Ciara Leeming)

Elizabeth Pascoe took on the authorities – and lost – when her home was earmarked for demolition under Liverpool’s Edge Lane development scheme.

Bill Booth has lived on a half-derelict street in Manchester for a decade and still has no idea if it will survive a regeneration scheme.

Theirs are among up to 400,000 [...]

Ouch

Hackney Council, what a bunch of morons:

Click here for more.

The good/bad thing about the internet is you can trace back people who need locking up

87.112.15.100 more info

Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 8

87.112.15.100.plusnet.ptn-ag1.dyn.plus.net

According to my stats the person above from Oxford searched AOL for ‘Pictures of young boys being buggered’. They ended up on a duckrabbit post about female circumcision. I hope they end up in jail.

Sometimes the more you know about this world the more [...]

You couldn’t make it up … oh yeah they did!

Last month 8500 of you visited duckrabbit’s blog

Wow … thanks so much, especially those who take the time out to comment. It makes all the hard work worthwhile

Ha Ha

Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.

John Robertson

Stan Banos (Reciprocity Failure Blog) reminds us that

Ibrahim Jassam- Imprisoned Journalist More than half a year into it (Obama Presidency), we still have: a widening war, rendition, Blackwater (XE) Mercs, legalized domestic spying, kowtowing to Republicans, corporations, financial institutions, etc, etc, etc… Change we’ve yet to live in!

So it’s no surprise that despite being ordered released by the Iraqi courts, Iraqi [...]

War is only half the story …

‘The Aftermath Project is a non-profit organization committed to telling the other half of the story of conflict — the story of what it takes for individuals to learn to live again, to rebuild destroyed lives and homes, to restore civil societies, to address the lingering wounds of war while struggling to create new avenues for peace.’ [...]

Favorite Headline (number 10)

Favorite Headlines (number 9)

Thanks to Matt and Ciara for pointing this one out:

Only in France …

THANKS CIARA

A few months back duckrabbit went to Pakistan to deliver a training

and I wrote absolutely nothing about it. Damn.

It was hot. I drunk lots of coke and enjoyed the company of some of the finest, funniest, most gracious people I have ever met.

Thank you Pakistan, you humbled me.