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Adam Westbrook
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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

The Prix Pictet prize has just been announced

Great photo’s, but if the world is any less fucked for them I’m a coconut. (let’s face it we’re only talking about this award because the winner gets £50000)

UPDATE

On the Prix Pictet website Kofi Annan has said that,

The photographs were a compelling call for action to tackle climate change, the most serious humanitarian [...]

Is duckrabbit the only person dissapointed that Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize?

Seriously, I’m a big Obama fan and I think he’s done a lot already in reaching out to the world, but it seems a bit premature.

America, alongside China and India, is currently responsible for a large proportion of the world’s emissions of co2, the stuff that causes climate change. We’re pretty bad in [...]

Taryn Simon’s TED talk

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 [...]

World Press Photo award winners now all online

Its great to see all the World Press Photo awards on-line but to be honest I don’t think it does the medium any favors.

Collectively the photos represent a fairly limited view on the world and one that swiftly leads to cynicism. The so called crisis in photography should encourage World Press [...]

INCLUSIVITY and photography – a thoughtful response

Some time ago duckrabbit ran a silly competition offering $1000 to anyone who could successfully justify to Stan Banos why PDN set up a 22 strong all white photography judging panel.

The competition, and surrounding debate resulted in PDN putting out an apology of sorts.  Today I received this comment from the US lawyer Steven Reyes:

‘I [...]

duckrabbit, some sweet news

duckrabbit has just got the nod for a grant from the warm and supportive people at the  CBA. This means that we’ll be off to Bangladesh and the Maldives covering stories related to climate change. What’s really important is the money specifically supports a multimedia approach to photojournalism. It’s a recognition that there are fresh [...]

Is this an own goal?

Having just seen the winner of The Press Photographer’s Year, I completely understand now why Kenyan photographers get totally pissed off  so many of the photography jobs go to visitors to their country (NGO or otherwise).

The argument being that outsiders are better equipped to deliver (yeah right).

The winners photo was taken in Kenya. The shot [...]

Anna S … Well done

That Anna Stevens must be a very humble girl because she forgot to mention on her terrific blog that that she won best multimedia in The Press Photographer Of the Year Award.  Well she would have done if that they hadn’t been so backwards and put her name in brackets under that of the photographer.

It’s [...]

duckrabbit photography competition – WIN $1000

duckrabbit today launches an exciting new free entry photo competition with a twist. One lucky person will win a lip smackingly beautiful $1000. The task is simple … all you need to do is restore a little bit of duckrabbit’s faith in the world. Intrigued?  Read on …

The roots of duckrabbit’s competition stated several weeks [...]

Amnesty International Media Awards

I’m still processing last nights Amnesty International Media awards, for which duckrabbit was nominated in the New Media category.  Many of the organizations nominated, including CNN, The Guardian, The Observer and the BBC commented that for them it is the most important awards of all. The one they really want in the trophy cabinet.

To tell [...]