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David White, photographer
Ciara Leeming
Adam Westbrook
Carl Pendle
Joseph Rodriguez
Martin-Nachtwey

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

When photography meets interactivity

Alongside photofilms, where you are guided through the story by the storyteller themselves, interactivity is another exciting way to tell photo stories.

The National Film Board of Canada is doing some sterling work in this area, combining stills with ambient audio – and then creating an interactive narrative for the viewer to explore in their own time.

A [...]

For your viewing pleasure: The Big Caption

As you’ve probably read over the last week, we’re big fans of photo-blogs like the New York Times’ Lens blog, which showcase some of the best photography from around the world each and every day.

Alongside Lens, there’s also the Big Picture, run by the Boston Globe. Again, it shows big images every day from somewhere on [...]

Good news for audio editors with Macs…

For some time, Apple’s computers have dominated the creative industry’s workspace; their reliability, fast processing speed and ownership of some of the industry standard software (Final Cut Pro in particular) makes them the must-have for any journalist, writer, film maker, photographer.

Oh and they also look nice.

But Macs have one big flaw which myself and duckrabbit feel [...]

The Vanishing Mind: another piece of awesome from the New York Times

If you’re serious about making good multimedia you should really make it your business to spend 15 minutes on the New York Times‘ website every morning. And the Washington Post too for that matter.

Such serendipity led me to stumble upon this superb and powerful story about an entire community of people in Columbia affected by [...]

Why you should give yourself a project

One of the hardest things about working for yourself as a journalist or producer is keeping in the habit of finding, researching and producing stories.

At first, you’re not as exposed to them as much as you would be in a newsroom. Inspiration is hard to come by. Good contacts even harder.

It’s easy this way to find [...]

Intimate audio

Have you checked out the daily blog Someone Once Told Me?

It’s a collection of photographs where the subjects are holding up a phrase someone once told them, that has somehow affected their life. I included it in this list of collaborative photography projects, and was in it last year too (warning, rude words).

Well here is [...]

Multimedia’s ‘open mic’ night

When Duckrabbit gave a mention to Carousel SlideSlam, Foto8′s new evening for photographers and multimedia producers, the warning was it: “could either be utterly sublime or pretentious crap.”

With such a plug I just had to go along to see for myself.

And the verdict: while it wasn’t utterly sublime, it was about as far from pretentious crap [...]

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 sitcom How I Met [...]

Bombay Flying Club's Streetlights: a last for Flash?

Multimedia producers the Bombay Flying Club have just published their latest piece, shot in Ethiopia.

At 11 minutes, Streetlight is a little on the long side for most armchair viewers, and the Flying Club’s trademark use of rich black and white photographs, while stunning, perhaps steals something from the overall piece. Their use of audio is wonderful, [...]

Drawing the dead

It’s not often the BBC’s small audio slideshow team really nail it on the head, but they’ve put together something special today.

Portraits of the Fallen tells the story of a Vietnam veteran who gets up at 4am every morning to draw pictures of service men and women killed in Iraq.

As well as excellent use of music [...]

An illuminated view of climate change in Bangladesh

Yesterday in London I decided to get wonderfully lost. I had some hours to kill and so I started walking along the river not really caring where I ended up.

Where I ended up was the small but popular gallery beneath the OXO Tower, only 10 minutes from where I started. The building used to be a [...]

Sometimes it takes just one picture...

…to show you the importance of stepping back, and slowing down.

…and sometimes we don’t even need a human being to take it.

ADAM WESTBROOK

Black Saturday: the Aussies get involved

With the majority of multimedia journalism projects emerging from the US and Europe, it’s great to see a slick piece come from Australia.

It arrives in the form of Black Saturday produced by broadcaster ABC, and tells the human stories of the huge bush fires which tore through Victoria in February this year. Here are some things [...]

Behind the Veil

This week long mini series by the Globe and Mail is causing quite the stir among multimedia journalists this week. Tracy Boyer’s eagle eye spotted it on the weekend, and it’s had plaudits from the likes of The Travel Photographer and The Bombay Flying Club.

I like it too, for several reasons:

it’s full screen (why hasn’t that [...]

“Hidden Hunger”

Tracy Boyer’s Innovative Interactivity blog has been the place to go for seeing the latest most exciting pieces of visual storytelling for some time.

Tracy’s also a multimedia journalist in her own right and has just completed a project of her own, called Honduras and the Hidden Hunger. It was produced after a long shoot [...]

In England

Bradford, 1973 by Don McCullin

A chance trip to the National Media Museum in Bradford last week, introduced me to the work of photojournalist Don McCullin.

Born in 1935 he worked for many years covering conflicts abroad. But on display was five decades worth of photography, chronicling British life. His photographs all [...]