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It’s a great picture … let there be no doubt, but it’s also symbolic of the fact that traditional photojournalism is losing its revered place to new media. The image from the Iranian elections that everyone will remember is a still taken from video shot by an amateur on the streets of Tehran. It’s [...] The set of pictures below are by Rajib Islam, one of the duckrabbit’s greatest friends, an amazingly talented man, a true gent and one of the kindest people I’ve ever met. If you ever need a good man in Bangladesh, or anywhere, he is it. How’s that for an intro Rajib? (DW) About 27,000 Rohingyas [...] Uzbekistan have done themselves no favours on this one…they found photographer and documentary maker Umida Akhmedova guilty. Luckily for her, the judge decided that as it was the, er, 18th anniversary of Uzbeck independence, he would waive the potential three year prison sentence. Phew, what a lucky coincidence. I doubt her ‘let off’ had anything [...] Photography is f$cked. From Tony Sleep. Originally on the EPUK list. “The quaint notion that the author has prime and inalienable rights over his/her own work, must be able to restrict usage, negotiate a fee, prevent usage they consider immoral or distasteful, or assert their moral right to attribution, is about to pass into history.” [...] Too much has already been said about a couple of photographers running workshops in Haiti following the earthquake, the debate about which started here on duckrabbit and quickly descended into pantomime. Respect must then go to Brendan Seibel for writing such a well balanced article on the debate. Read it here on Wired. To witness the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti is to be lost inside a waking nightmare, the markers on this mapless journey, swarms of looters, children with chopped-off limbs, cities fabricated of sticks and bed sheets, pulverized cathedrals, dogs circling the dead in the streets. Most Haitians have always lived in a society [...] It’s difficult to squash a big subject like the US civil rights movement into a 15 minute multimedia piece but Platon’s current project for the New Yorker at least offers a taster so anyone with an interest will hopefully look into the era more deeply. Contemporary portraits of some of the (often very elderly) [...] Gil Scott-Heron and Robert Frank…Well, who’d have thought it. Check it out then listen to Gil’s new album below. ( I think Bob’s on Bass ) ” I may be crazy, but I’m the closest thing I have to a voice of reason” What a line. Play it…..’tis as good as you dared hope [...] The set of pictures below are by Rajib Islam, one of the duck’s greatest friends, an amazingly talented man, a true gent and one of the kindest people I’ve ever met. If you ever need a good man in Bangladesh, or anywhere, he is it. How’s that for an intro Rajib? Hopefully he will [...] Andrew Bigosinski, Director of the Cine Institute film school, Jacmel, has recently posted a comment clarifying their position regarding certain “Photo Aid” projects in Haiti: “The Cine Institute of Jacmel has not agreed to partner in any “Photo Aid” projects. This is a misrepresentation of an agreement we had prior to this great crisis and [...] I feel off-balance, and unable to keep up with the pace of the life unfolding in front of me. There are a million obvious images, but none that feel right to a frame. I see and yet I cannot find. I struggle to look, but yet I sense that I am not looking in the [...] I’m not – on the whole – personally a fan of multimedia pieces where the photographer talks over his own work. But I’ll make a big exception for this one from Magnum’s largest character, Bruce Gilden, who says there’s a gangster in all of us. What a start to the weekend. [...] Robot snapper takes it to the next level…. Don’t stop watching before he swaps the 17-40 for the .38…. Next week: suicide paparazzi.
But I’m leaving you in the good hands of rabbit and Ciara. In the meantime I’ll be hanging with my old friend Yasuyoshi Chiba. Good thing about working with Yasu is that most Kenyans think he’s a martial arts expert so I never get any shit. Oh yeah and he’s a world champion at breakdancing. [...] Wars and other types of human-made tragedies are different. There are questions of right and wrong, justice and injustice, political complications, et cetera. I feel like my voice as an observer has a purpose. But with an earthquake or tsunami, I don’t have a purpose. There is no need for explanation or contemplation. There is [...] duckrabbit will have a word or two to say at this conference which we’re really looking forward to. Some great and thoughtful speakers. Be good to see a few of you there. March 10, 2010, 10.30-5pm Main lecture theatre London College of Communication Elephant and Castle London SE1 6SB This one day conference at London [...] |
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