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

Mishoka's story

(3rd Place, Feature Audio Slideshow, Best of Photojournalism 2010)

Congratulations to all the other winners.

This video was produced in collaboration with MSF as part of their amazing Condition Critical project. Please do visit the website and leave a comment. THANKS. [...]

A nice surprise

The duck have been lucky enough to pick up a prize in the news audio slideshow category of the NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism 2010 awards.

The slideshow is really only a taster for the full project that will follow later but we’re glad that the judges saw something in the work. That’s a lovely boost [...]

'For many, the local newspaper isn't dying - it's already dead'

For African Americans, Native Americans, Asian, Latino… or gays… or under 25… or female… they know that their communities have been, and continue to be, routinely left out of their newspaper. They typically make the news for holidays, crime or food. For many of them, newspapers aren’t dying… they’re already dead. At SXSWi, attendees [...]

‘Get the message across’

Ron Haviv: In today’s world of fragmented media it is imperative that we as photographers multi-platform our projects in order to reach as many people as possible. It simply is not enough for our work to appear in just a magazine, a book or a website alone. Each way of communicating can reach a different [...]

My talk at Digital Storytelling 10

It’s a bit rambling because I abandoned the script. No bad thing cause the script was crap.

Thanks to the good people at the BBC College of Journalism for filming and streaming the talk.

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Ciara Leeming - Streetfighters Seven (Middlesbrough)

More here.

Stop section 43...or the horse gets it, and so do you...

If you are a photographer, amateur, professional, whatever… you MUST pay attention to this…blog about it, tweet it, shout it from the rooftops, but DO NOT IGNORE IT…. Make some noise, please…do not expect others to sort this out for you…your voice is needed.

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Too Graphic?

Valérie Payen-Jean Baptiste, a Haitian elementary school principal who lost every possession, her home and school, and nearly her family in the quake, was sickened by the images. “I’m tired of it; the photos are too much,” she says. “I know that [news outlets] took pictures, and that enabled people to raise money. But what [...]

Tragically Beautiful?

The consistently engaging New York Times Lens blog is running a series of James Nachtwey’s photos of people suffering from TB.

No-one should doubt Nachtwey’s unflinching commitment to the dark end of this story, but I wonder if there is a disconnect between what Nachtwey is reported as saying and his images?

‘“I wanted to [...]

Jazz Loft – W Eugene Smith

From 1957 to 1965, legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith made approximately 4,000 hours of recordings on 1,741 reel-to-reel tapes and nearly 40,000 photographs in a loft building in Manhattan’s wholesale flower district where major jazz musicians of the day gathered and played their music. The work remained archived until recently, but last year a [...]

STOP SECTION 43…or else, this:

Stop Section 43 of the DEB act being passed

You’ll have heard of the Digital Economy Bill: it introduces powers to cut your Internet connection if you’re caught illegally downloading films, music or software. It does more than that. It takes your photographs from you, too.

This diagram below shows you what happens now [...]

The Future of journalism?

‘I would strongly urge that mainstream media involve others, including those at universities, in coming up with these new strategies. It is young people who are going to invent their own versions of journalism if it is to be revitalized and appeal to their peers. Just as the capabilities of the iPhone have been [...]

Why Context Matters

Answers to the following questions will not be found here or here:

Who are these villagers?

What are their lives like?

How do they know how to strip an elephant?

What use is made of its bones, meat etc?

Why are they ’starved of meat’?

What makes the elephant a valuable commodity?

What is the [...]

How photography lies

even when it’s telling the truth?

Essential reading.

Paul Nicklen on the Niemen Storyboard

‘I’ve just won my fifth World Press Photo award—I’m going to Amsterdam soon to pick it up. And I’m going to be really vocal to the entire audience about this: it’s a tragedy that all these people are out there doing reaction stories. If there’s an earthquake, if 200,000 people die, if there’s a [...]

Charles Moore: I fight with my camera (watch this, please)

Charles Moore is the legendary Montgomery photojournalist whose coverage of the Civil Rights era produced some of the most famous shots in the world (the dogs and fire hoses in Birmingham, the Selma Bridge, and Martin Luther King’s arrest in Montgomery, among many others.) His photographs are credited with helping to quicken the [...]

'toon..

Found this here, dunno who drew it, but it’s good:

It’s probably us.

Charles Moore on the BBC

Check it out.

Important stuff.

‘The photographs were never about me. They were always about the people who were laying their lives on the line for basic civil rights. I look back and I can’t believe there was ever a time in this country when ANY citizen could not vote. The times were appalling. Pictures [...]

Streetfighters – Ciara Leeming

Is anyone else getting a buzz about Ciara Leemings project to document the many families in the North losing their homes to compulsory purchase? Sometimes it needs to happen to regenerate areas, although I’d be confident with the sums of money swilling around in regeneration programmes that not all the decisions are taken for the [...]

WOW WOW WOW

Watch this video featuring National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen … really do!