Writing Here:

duckrabbit
David White
Ciara
John Macpherson
Peter
Sara Trula
Carl Pendle
Joni Karanka
Mike Lusmore
Julian Lass

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

Progress

Tonight I found myself on YouTube watching Martin Luther King’s famous “I have a dream” speech.

Take a look at the advert running in the Left Hand Corner:

I’m not sure why I’m shocked.

Asim Rafiqui says it so much more eloquently here, but really all our wealth is built on the [...]

2nd tour hope i don't die - Peter van Agtmael

I have to say, I think Magnum in Motion are really on top of their game at the moment. For something like the third time in as many weeks they’ve produced a beautiful little multimedia piece, this time about 2nd tour soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Shot by Peter van Agtmael – do [...]

New York, as you’ve never seen it before

This is wonderful work.

The Sandpit from Sam O’Hare on Vimeo.

A day in the life of New York City, in miniature.

Original Music: composed by Human, co-written by Rosi Golan and Alex Wong.

Please view in HD and full screen for best effect. For a description of the shoot, camera, lenses and [...]

Scruples: So what? So everything.

Here’s a nice competition, woo, you get to win a camera. I could do with one of those. It’s got a catchy title: Science: So what? So everything. Could be good. It’s backed by the government, that staunch defender of our rights (Eh?Ed) It’s getting interesting. They’ve got a pretty website. They even have [...]

I get accused of being obsessive with pictures and stories.

But sometimes obsession is what it takes.

Stephen Alvarez

Haiti: January 12 - by Ron Haviv

“I don’t think there is any one photograph that can encompass the loss that people suffered. I think there comes a time when you need to have a group of images or a combination of words, of audio, video and stills to hit you on all senses for you to really appreciate what [...]

British Journal of Photography (BJP)

Goes monthly

Roger Tooth, head of photography at The Guardian, says

I would have thought we are at saturation point for photojournalists, but then you have the colleges churning out thousands of graduates each year, so its all a bit worrying really. I haven’t got a clue what these people are going to do? I would have thought we’ve got enough people to go around [...]

Time of change - Bruce Davidson

Following on from Platon’s recent civil rights portraits in the New Yorker, Magnum’s Bruce Davidson looks back at his time documenting the period in Time of Change, a short yet effective multimedia piece on In Motion.

Separated at birth?

BLACK FRANCIS (of Pixies Fame)

And BRIAN STORM (of Mediastorm fame)

I was at symposium last week in New York where Brian was speaking, and really for a moment I thought he was going to break into a chorus of ‘Where is my mind’. [...]

Have you woken up to a world After Photography?

Until we agree that it is intolerable to continue witnessing horrific events without exploring their causes and putting them in context, to have one’s imagery selected by others to emphasize the sensational at the expense of the more nuanced and authentic, as well as having photographs miscaptioned to simplify and distort, photojournalism will become [...]

The future of magazines?

For the background to this read the excellent blog AMUSING OURSELVES

Bauer Media - 'We profit, you lose'

or, ‘Photographers screw you.’

“They don’t care, they say, you are Roma, you will die there.”

Amnesty International audio-slide show on Roma housing rights in Romania from Rob Godden on Vimeo.

Audio slideshow to support campaigning on the right to adequate housing for Roma in Romania, focusing on the case of the Romani community of Miercurea Ciuc, Central Romania.

PHOTOGRAPHS by Zsuzsanna Ardó. [...]

Thanks to the Travel Photographer for this great write up

on Rajib Islam’s important work on the Rohingya in Bangladesh. I sincerely hope that more people pick up on Rajib’s heart felt attempt to bring attention to the human rights abuses suffered by the Rohingya.

Duckrabbit's stateside cameo!

They say breaking the US market is one of the hardest things to do…well Duckrabbit may have done it without even trying, landing a spot on Prime Time US TV! (OK, well sort of).

Yes, Duckrabbit branding found itself all over the latest episode of the Emmy award winning, and occasionally amusing, CBS [...]

Always good

when by chance you come across someone you’ve never met who likes what you’re doing …

‘What interests me now is how the web is changing photography. One fascinating dimension is the incorporation of audio and photography into web multi-media. The addition of a narrative has the potential to slow the viewer, forcing them [...]

a tour of duty – BBC audio slideshow

The BBC has a great audio slideshow today featuring the voice and photos of former Grenadier guards officer Cpt Alexander Allan who spent six months in Afghanistan. It’s wonderfully human and intimate – much more so than anything I’ve seen by any embedded photographer. Five minutes well [...]

Turf War at the New York Times: Who Will Control the iPad?

Would you pay $30 – a month – for an app to let you read a newspaper? Thought not. But according to this, that is being seriously considered. Here is old school vs new in one neat package. In the same building in fact, maybe even the same office. Very interesting.

This internet malarkey [...]

No reply from Kerry McCarthy MP re: DEB

My MP, Kerry McCarthy, has not yet bothered to respond to the information I sent her regarding the Digital Economy Bill. So far, not so good. I am not impressed…she’s had a good while now to respond.

If you have not written to your MP about this yet, you must, please. And use this [...]