Writing Here:

duckrabbit
David White
Ciara
John Macpherson
Peter
Sara Trula
Carl Pendle
Joni Karanka
Mike Lusmore
Julian Lass

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

Thievery, and Volvos.

God damn it. Some bastard has just been round the back of my house and half inched a beautiful and incredibly heavy B20 engine for my ancient Volvo Amazon, and thieved my beloved welder.

I don’t know why I’m telling you.. other than to ask you to keep your eye out down the pub. [...]

Jobs…they’re like buses.

Sort of. Well, not at all actually, but here’s another one….Staff Photo editor for Bloomberg in London Town.

 

Job! And a sweet one at that.

Ey up. Photo editor job for the frankly great MSF.

Could this be for you? You’ve got to like Brussels though, and they make you fart.

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PHOTO EDITOR

Background and objectives: The PHOTO EDITOR position aims to contribute to MSF’s communication and information activities through photography.

Together with the Photo Production Advisor, he/she works on selecting photos, [...]

Photographers…got a good feature?

Heads up. I’ve been asked by the acting features director on UK Marie Claire magazine (Kasie Davies) to put this up for you all:

“I am on the look out for a ‘weird world’ type feature. By this I mean projects that might involve crazy pageants, conventions, people doing strange things that make remarkable [...]

#FF Funky Friday

Well well well. It’s about that time. Amongst the myriad of things to do, Funky Friday must not be forgotten.

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“Cameras, they steal your soul, so they do.”

I mentioned previously I might write a little on photographing people and ‘inhibition’ following a comment made to a recent post. This post is also, I guess, a wee bit about perception, and how what you perceive to be the content, and indeed the intent of your images, may not be shared so precisely by [...]

‘A woman sits for a final photograph with her dying mother’ or just another great post on Conscientious

If you only read one thing about photography this week, next week, or for the rest of the year, read this post.

‘Even if your photographic diet only consisted of, let’s say, James Nachtwey photographs, I am relatively certain – relatively, not absolutely – that this photograph will move you. It might even shock [...]

WOW!

I’ve has just told me this will be the venue for our photofilm workshop at Contact photo festival in May in Toronto:

 

I thought our pad next to Tower Bridge in London is pretty hard to beat but once again Mooserabbit (aka Daniel Seguin) has upped the ante.

And if you’re thinking [...]

Photographers – Want to make a difference? And earn some cash?

Blimey.

Imagine if you could get a job that would really, definitely, demonstrably make a difference. One that tallies with your desires to make the world a better place. One that would also probably allow you to work on those delicious projects that you struggle like hell to fund. A job that makes you feel [...]

Photofilm, Black Sea Of Concrete by Rafal Milach.

‘People have changed the landscape in a very brutal way here. But the sea fights back for its natural shape and territory. Local people seem to respect the power of the sea. Nevertheless at he same time they thoughtlessly devastate it. This wired symbiosis makes this piece of land fascinating.‘ Rafal Milach.

This is [...]

The great Libyan embed

“Patients were brought to us in the middle of interrogation for medical care, in order to make them fit for further interrogation. This is unacceptable,” said MSF General Director Christopher Stokes.

I’m not the only one who has been struck by the one sided reporting of the Libyan revolution.  It seems the media were [...]

#FF Funky Friday

Lou will look after you, always.

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Crap photobook of the week

Huffington Post Says

‘Here’s a foolproof way to sell a book of photographs: reconceptualize the best ones in the world. That’s what photographer Tim Mantoani has done with his new book “Behind Photographs,” a compilation of famous photographers holding their famous works‘

My review is here.

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The ‘Problem’ With Photography Prizes

‘As I prepared pictures to submit to a contest I could not stop thinking that all these past years the main photo contests chose their winners from among the pictures depicting wars and conflicts. I think that this year will be the same, due to the many bloody events around the world.

I [...]

Its all in the edit (delete at your peril)

I’ve been teaching photography in various ways for over 20 years, and embraced the digital revolution for all the reasons we all have, but also because of the ways it enabled me to show a novice photographer a technique in ‘real time’ and see the result on the lcd screen. Learning is quicker and [...]

For Ben and Mike..

On the road again…safe travels.

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1 bad meal, 30 hours of travel, far too many toilet stops and a 5m long snake

Milton, Bangladesh's very our Basil Fawlty bids us farewell…

I’m sat in Crystal Coffee in the car park of Medan’s International airport where it’s surprising to learn that I can’t get a straight black cup of coffee. Surprising as I have just left Aceh in the north where I tasted the most beautiful [...]

Death or Birth (just a comment I read on Facebook)

Somebody wrote:

‘OK, Kodak’s dead…..and why is it, with the exception of a handful of shooters, none of the photographers who excelled in my generation are working, and why is it that no one really cares? I can think of 40 names, even more from the 80′s who were young at that time…. I [...]

A love letter from the other side of the world (for Samuel)

Hello Sam,

It’s your birthday and I am on the other side of the world, thinking about you.

This is your first birthday I have missed since you came out fighting for your first breath eleven years ago and changed me forever.

Back then you were an exploding galaxy of potential. You were the [...]

#FF Funky Friday

I’m in charge of Funky Friday, make no mistake. So, If I say this Ray Charles tune is befitting, so be it.

It has been missing from the tintertwizzle for many a moon, but I found it again. And boy, what a song. Probably my favourite Ray tune ever, and that’s saying something. From the [...]