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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

Super hot Nikon lens cap trick..

Ooooh…how exciting. Hold on to your pants.
I just remembered something I’d forgotten, and thought it would be useful to a fair few of you…

I was just trying to put back on an old rear lens cap on one of my nikkors. The poor little cap is knackered, and won’t stay on.
Then I remembered…..I went and [...]

Einstein’s brain….

In four days time it will be the anniversary of old Albert’s birth. This fact reminded me of a pic I shot a little while ago…a stonemason here in Bristol – Mike Blow- phoned me up and told me that he’d made an exact replica of Einstein’s brain out of marble. And not just any [...]

War photographer: a dangerous idolatry

“In times when (some) photographers hold celebrity status, it is useful to be reminded that a good photograph does not solely depend on the photographer’s ability to choose the right subject, location and light, but also on the chemistry and the collaboration, between photographer and subject…Despite my deep sympathy for socially inclined photographers, when the [...]

Manchester Photography on Don McCullin's show @ The Imperial War Museum

If you are a young photojournalist with aspirations of photographing war & destruction, famine and suffering and think that your pictures are ever going to change the world well this show should show you that you are on a hiding to nothing. If the pictures made by Don MCullin can’t change the world, well [...]

Favorite Headlines

Tonight I'm absolutely floored

by a series of posts I’ve just read on Prison Photography about the death of the young woman Fabienne Cherisma in Haiti and the photographers who witnessed this event. The pictures are too graphic for my stomach, but the questions are important.

‘Photographers don’t work in a vacuum and we must demand to turn their images [...]

Are you taking the VII?

VII MASTERCLASS WORKSHOP WITH ANTONIN KRATOCHVIL
ORTHODOX EASTER IN THE CHERNOBYL FORBIDDEN ZONE

‘Chernobyl and its Forbidden Zone are magical places, which attract the attention of both adventurers and the media. After more than 20 years, echoes of the worst nuclear disaster in the history of man still resonate. Antonin Kratochvil, from the VII agency, has repeatedly [...]

If you’re thinking about getting a book printed:

So you’re thinking about making a Print-On-Demand book but you don’t know which company to use, or whether it’s going to be worth the money. Well ASMP has done the groundwork for you. Their great idea was to try eighteen different companies and invite people to review and rate the results. About 100 people showed [...]

Isn't it funny

how the so called ‘invisible people’ are only invisible if you walk around with your eyes shut.

(thanks Stan)

Close To My Heart

A few posts ago I was quite critical of Unicef’s new five year campaign PUT IT RIGHT, for being centred on making sure that children are heard but not actually featuring any children’s voices. Clearly an own goal. But as the video below demonstrates Unicef can use their mandate effectively to give people a [...]

Rhubarb Rhubarb Commercial Review

Rhubarb Rhubarb are top people.

I got an email from Rhubarb last night saying they’re opening up a photo gallery in Birmingham, which is fantastic news. Let’s hope they get proper backing from a city that holds one of the nations great photo collections.

If you’re serious about photography, find it hard to access movers and shakers [...]

Ed Kashi in London

US photojournalist Ed Kashi is in London next week for an exhibition of his project Curse of the Black Gold, looking at the Nigerian oil business, and a series of other events.

For more info about the show and talk on Monday at Host Gallery check out the Foto8 site. He’s also speaking at [...]

Lens or thermos?

This little story bought back a memory for me. Years ago, whilst a young, junior snapper on the Leicester Mercury – my first job – I was captioning my prints outside the darkroom when the editor marched up, howling, as he was want to do. Alex his name was, and everyone was terrified of him, [...]

Audio slideshow: A boy's struggles by Liz O. Baylen

The POYI multimedia judges have picked this powerful audio slideshow by Liz O. Baylen of the Los Angeles Times as the winner of the Issue Reporting category.

I’m sure Liz will feel this is not just an award for her talent, but also the brave mother and son who so eloquently and with so much dignity [...]

Science:So what...so back on track

Duckrabbit can be the first to tell you that the terms and conditions to the ‘Science: so what‘ photo comp have been radically altered to the benefit of all participants. It’s great to know that we can affect these things. I would like to thank the elusive ‘Frank’ for all his efforts. Here is the [...]