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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

Nairobi duty free..

Now here’s an offer that’s hard to refuse…

How many bums does one person need? Or hips? I’ll take 3 extra of each please. Is that greedy? Are you allowed odd numbers?

I just don’t know.

The power of the image….

For those with an overly text heavy website, surely this is applicable to you also:

“only twelve percent of the people who pick up a news-paper read a story on the front page if no picture accompanies the story”  -  Kenneth Kobre.

Now, I cannot verify the above, so it could be complete  (click)  but it comes from [...]

The new Noctilux?

Can’t quite stretch to a new Noctilux? Let’s face it, who can ( unless you’re a minted intern)..

Well, if you’ve got a micro four thirds camera, such as the wonderful Panasonic GH-1, which we are great fans of, then maybe you might be interested in the announcement that Cosina are going to start producing their wonderful [...]

William Blake on Photofilms.

I could have chosen one of many, many William Blake quotes. I was going to put one up about infinity or somesuch, but the one below resonated due to the fact Ben and I have spent most of the last week training in Kenya. I’m always banging on about playing to our students; playing with ideas, [...]

Listen and learn

Pete Brook over on Prison Photography has posted up an awesome find…you have to check it out…

‘Saturday Come Slow’: Broomberg and Chanarin Team Up with Massive Attack and Former Guantanamo Detainee, Ruhal Ahmed’

As Pete says:

“It is neither film, photography nor journalism; the video is part activism, probably art and definitely a call to thought.”

Indeed.

Times paywall…have a guess…

Q. “What might be going on behind the Times paywall?”

A. Concern, worry, disbelief, anxiety, fear, apprehension, distress, alarm, unease,disquiet, trepidation, loss of sleep, incredulity, doubt, distrust, scepticism and mistrust.

Pete’s looking on the bright side

Mono window.

This goes to show how you can not see something that is right in front of your face.

This is a pic out of one of my windows, a window that I look out of dozens of times a day. For the first time the other evening things lined up and I saw this pic. It’s a shot [...]

John Cooper Clarke on the Queen Ma

John Cooper Clarke was just on the radio rambling on.

Here’s a couple of his lines about the death of the Queen mum:

She stuck it out throughout the blitz

When lesser mortals got the shivers.

RPS…now you see it, now you don’t…

Looks like the RPS have pulled all links to their daft rights grabbing fiasco. (See below)

No links work, and there’s nowt about it any more on their website.

But, as if by magic, here it is.

Let’s hope that means they’ve dropped the Rather Pathetic Scam.

That’s enough acronyms for me, I’m going slightly mad.

RPS = Ridiculous Promotional Suicide?

Let’s all help South West Tourism create a free advertising campaign and picture library shall we? With the backing of the Royal Photographic Society.

NO, let’s not.

You couldn’t make it up. Absolutely ridiculous. Read it and weep.

Whatever gentrified muppet within the RPS thought this was a good idea needs their head looking at. If it [...]

Leica UK transfers repair operations to Germany

‘the average repair time is likely to decrease, due to reduced transit times and improved access to spare parts,” claims Leica.’

Well, their repair times couldn’t get much worse. I’m sure they’ve still got that light leaking Ur-Leica I posted to them in 1914. That’s probably worth a few bob now, maybe even enough to [...]

The Rhubarb Rhubarb international review…

Was awesome.

I have never seen such quality of photography in one place. I was lucky enough to be a floating reviewer, and as such was able to view amazing work, chat to fascinating people, and get a free lunch (twice!! so much for the free lunch theory ). I was even allowed in the same [...]

Intern, out.

duckrabbit may have to start paying our slave. Else we’re gonna get it from the Big Man. Balls. I suppose that means we should also allow the poor (rich) young thing some daylight. Where will this end. Tsskk.

From the Press Gazette:

“Employers mistakenly believe there is a ‘grey area’ around internships in the National Minimum Wage legislation [...]

“The profession of ‘photojournalist’ no longer exists”

Good piece by some market stall holder called Neil Burgess over on the EPUK site.

Honesty, that’s what we like here at the duck. Doesn’t get much more honest than that piece.

“I believe we owe it to our children to tell them that the profession of ‘photojournalist’ no longer exists. There are thousands of the poor [...]

Back off paedo..

Here’s a great project by Anna Brooks and Samantha Harvey……take a look….if you’ve ever had to photograph youngsters in the UK you’ll understand the reasons…

As an aside, here’s a very funny post by the eponymous and anonymous jaded snapper…his blog is always worth a read..

It’s such a glamorous life being a newspaper smudger…

An oldie, but -damn- …a goodie.

”If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.”

Always good to be reminded.

Cheers Bill

No burger, all bollocks.

A Tamil refugee who went on a 23-day hunger strike in Parliament Square last year has received an apology and almost £80,000 in damages from the Daily Mail and the Sun over false allegations that he secretly sustained himself with hamburgers.

Sod all about that story on the Mail site or the Sun. What a surprise.

Bieber. Time. Women. Afghanistan.

Very strong set of portraits from Jodi Bieber on Time.com.

Very dignified and respectful. Shocking in parts. Enlightening in others.

image above © Jodi Bieber

And more, explaining why Aisha (pictured above) is on the cover of Time magazine

Go slow and hit things

Always fun watching stuff like this…oooh what you can do at 1000 frames a second…

Tempus II from Philip Heron on Vimeo.

Hymn for Africa

Thanks to the Daniel Jackson Explosion, we have this awesome tune. It’s epic, all 7 minutes of it.

Get to know it. Get your friends to know it. Sing it really loud.