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December 18th, 2009
A few days back I exchanged emails with the photographer Stephen Alvarez, who for the last fifteen years has shot for National Geographic. He suggested we take the conversation onto our blogs.
If you’re not aware of his work than I would say it is characterized by being both hard won and sublime:
(c) Stephen Alvarez
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November 29th, 2009
Ok, so anybody reading any of the blogs with which duckrabbit feels an affinity will know that Pete Brook, of prison photography fame, got fed up with all the daft debate surrounding photography and diversity and has decided to do something about it. So he wrote to a tonne of us bloggers asking if we’d [...]
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October 7th, 2009
About this talk
Taryn Simon exhibits her startling take on photography — to reveal worlds and people we would never see otherwise. She shares two projects: one documents otherworldly locations typically kept secret from the public, the other involves haunting portraits of men convicted for crimes they did not commit.
About Taryn Simon
With a large-format camera [...]
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October 5th, 2009
duckrabbit just came across the excellent blog SLIGHTLY LUCID. Highly recommended.
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August 12th, 2009
You know how it is. Friday night you’ve planned to go somewhere but everyone else pulls out. It gets to about nine o’clock and you think can I really be arsed? Nine times out of ten I’d lock myself away but a few Friday’s back I pushed myself out the door to go and have [...]
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August 9th, 2009
I featured the work of Mishka Henner and Liz Lock on duckrabbit a couple of days ago. I was drawn back to a series on their website this morning called Dedicated to the one I love, which explores the lives of some of the 50000 young people in Britain who have become their parents carers. [...]
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July 25th, 2009
This week we’re kicking off a new series ‘ Where it’s at’. This is where the finest work we sing about on duckrabbit will go. The stuff that kicks our ass.
Where better to start then with Joseph Rodriguez?
Regular readers will know that duckrabbit couldn’t give a toss about the tedious cult of the photographer [...]
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June 28th, 2009
According to the BJP
‘French magazine Paris Match was the victim of a hoax when it was revealed that this year’s winners of its Photojournalism Award had faked their images.
Every year, Paris Match, which remains one of the last weekly magazine to give predominant space to photography, organises its ‘Grand Prix Paris Match du Photoreportage.’ [...]
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June 10th, 2009
I can’t even begin to explain. On the web, as elsewhere, presentation of photography is everything and John Bennett, celebrated author, blogger, has opened my eyes to new possibilities. He’s created a fragment of a poem, that goes by the name of SOFT CITIES … its not perfect yet, but masterpieces and a spot at [...]
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