Writing Here:

duckrabbit
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

I’m not sure who is cooler

Paul Simon or the little girl.

(thanks Pete, this cheered me up no end)

Photofilm – Surviving The Drought

This is a very short photofilm that David and I threw together during our training here in Kenya. We wanted to demonstrate to the wonderful people at ILRI that you can build a photofilm in a short amount of time.

We had about an hour on location. After a lot of smiling, shaking hands and throwing [...]

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.

Danny Ghitis – Death Before Life (before death)

This work made me think.

(C) Danny Ghitis

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 [...]

Found on Liz Marotti's FACEBOOK page

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 [...]

New cracking digital recorder

One thing I’m just starting to realize through our training is that tonnes of people seem to buy a digital recorder and then plug an external microphone into it. In most instances this is almost entirely pointless.  It will generally result in worse audio.

On that note I noticed that Yasuyoshi Chiba was recording with a new digital [...]

The Quarry

At the end of the second day of our photofilm training here in Nairobi we stopped off at a quarry.

David and I had just short of an hour to see if we could find someone willing to chat and also shoot off some pics. We wanted to demonstrate to the wonderful people at ILRI (who we [...]

Shakespeare on storytelling

I am feeling inspired by David’s quote by William Blake.

Anyone who attends a duckrabbit training will know I talk a lot about Shakespeare.  If you can’t learn something about storytelling from the greatest ever writer in the English language someone must have turned your life support off.

“I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up [...]

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, [...]

Rodriguez

Photofilm – Liquor or gravy?

Erdal Redjep is one of the (many) stand out students on the Masters in Photojournalism at LCC. I suggested he bounce his work up to the BBC and it’s great to see them publishing his work on the London website.

If Erdal can just inject a bit more ooomph into his photofims than there will be little [...]

Lovely Facebook Contradiction

A Facebook spokeswoman said: “We can’t comment on individual cases for privacy reasons but I can tell you that one group, entitled Death to Mary Bale, has been removed today.”

Pete Masters (duckrabbit student) work

Not bad for an amateur (it wouldn’t be bad if he was a pro either)

Training, training and more training

It’s been a bit mad but very enjoyable running so many training courses over the Summer. By early September we’ll have done nine, ranging from one to four days.

Duckrabbit’s workshop was very practical and will teach you everything you need to know to produce photofilms to a very high standard. Benjamin has a wealth of knowledge [...]

Quality tilt shift, stop motion, photofilm by Carl

God that title was a mouthful, but it’s late and you know what I mean …

Glorious Goodwood Week 2010 from Carl Pendle on Vimeo.

Before Ali knocked out Foreman in the infamous Rumble In The Jungle

Bill Withers took to the stage in Zaire and sung this song.

Listening to it tonight just reduced me to tears. So far from home, it hurts.

THANKS @Magotsi

Acoustic served raw with shivers

Someone to avoid when on the road

A taxi driver duckrabbit met tonight called Francis, who when asked for a receipt handed me a blank one and said:

“Can you write it yourself? I can’t really see”.