In Search of Brigadoon.

I went in search of Brigadoon last week. If you've no idea what I'm talking about this link might enlighten you. Where exactly I wandered I'm not revealing lest it spoil your own search for the mythic; going without expectation allows chance to prosper. It's something I heartily recommend you do if you get the chance. To be perfectly honest I went to places......

“Do you see it? Understand it? Ok..” (“The mysterious perversion of photography”).

There's an interesting article in the NYT Lens blog by Donald R. Winslow: 'Eddie Adams: 10 Years On, and War Will Never Be the Same"   "When Eddie Adams died 10 years......

“Jack wasn’t going to get killed.”.

Paul Kerley has produced a powerful audio slideshow about  a father who lost his son in Afghanistan.  It works on so many levels. First off it shows that you don't need great pictures for......

Multimedia -Sexual Warfare, Rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

When duckrabbit lived in Ethiopia the radio programmes that I managed regularly told stories of women and children who had......

Line up, line up, for one day only we are offering an all inclusive,.

totally exclusive, non refundable, day trip to the front line of the Sri Lanka war. That's the position Reuters photographer David Gray found......

Nine times out of ten a picture in a paper is a quick hit,.

bang it tells its story and then its gone again. The problem is so many thoughtful photos get left behind. It's frightening how little we see of the pictures that really matter. I only became aware of......

(audio slideshow) “I’m the guy who puts the smile on your face,.

other places you just look dead." Lets face it painting up rigormortis in a funeral home isn't my idea of a fun Saturday morning sport, neither is it something I really want to watch over my......

You don’t need to take sides.

you just need to be the right side of human. ...

Audio Slideshow – “They surrounded us with a wall on all sides,.

it's like living in a tomb." Its a powerful image of a harsh life lived by Christian Arabs in Bethlehem, found in this audio slideshow  by Martha Rial in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. We only......

just don’t say I didn’t black and white you ….

Yesterday on duckrabbit I alluded to the fact that I sometimes wish we saw more color photos of Africa, particularly when we see images of conflict.  Someone from Australia wrote to me saying 'who......

I am trying to break your heart (part seven).

In the past I've been mildly critical of some of Media Storm's productions, pretty much peerless in production values though they are. They always look......

‘The Fallen’ – this is why the BBC matters.

Benjamin I pretty much never watch TV. For most of my life I haven't even owned one.  Not that I have anything against TV, I love it. That's the problem.  No TV, problem solved. Saturday......