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
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duckrabbit posted this on November 18th, 2010
Everybody knows (and behind his back everybody says) that one of the problems with the Visa, Festival of Shanty Towns, is that it only has one curator, and as time ticks on more and more people are turning blue trying to squeeze into the narrowness of that curator’s mind. (that may sound a bit [...]
duckrabbit posted this on November 1st, 2010
Last month duckrabbit had over 44000 visits.
To top it off I got this email this morning from Kelvin Brown, one of the photographers who recently attended a duckrabbit photofilm workshop.
‘My photo film about Cross Bones has been published on the BBC website. Thanks a stack for your advice on how to improve. [...]
duckrabbit posted this on September 27th, 2010
Thank you for your response to my post yesterday critisizing the way way certain photo agencies seem content to abuse the rights of indvidual photographers. I am sorry that we misunderstood you. Might that have something to do with upholding a logic that many people find is at odds with your self stated remit [...]
Adam Westbrook posted this on May 2nd, 2010
Have you checked out the daily blog Someone Once Told Me?
It’s a collection of photographs where the subjects are holding up a phrase someone once told them, that has somehow affected their life. I included it in this list of collaborative photography projects, and was in it last year too (warning, rude [...]
Adam Westbrook posted this on February 12th, 2010
Multimedia producers the Bombay Flying Club have just published their latest piece, shot in Ethiopia.
At 11 minutes, Streetlight is a little on the long side for most armchair viewers, and the Flying Club’s trademark use of rich black and white photographs, while stunning, perhaps steals something from the overall piece. Their use of [...]
David White posted this on February 9th, 2010
Sent to the duck by Ian Forsyth, this multimedia piece looks at the repatriation of soldiers killed on operations whilst in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the thoughts of the residents of Wootton Bassett..a town through which many bodies of these men pass. His piece is an MOD produced handout, maybe the first of its [...]
Ciara posted this on February 6th, 2010
I feel off-balance, and unable to keep up with the pace of the life unfolding in front of me. There are a million obvious images, but none that feel right to a frame. I see and yet I cannot find. I struggle to look, but yet I sense that I am not looking in [...]
Adam Westbrook posted this on January 21st, 2010
It’s not often the BBC’s small audio slideshow team really nail it on the head, but they’ve put together something special today.
Portraits of the Fallen tells the story of a Vietnam veteran who gets up at 4am every morning to draw pictures of service men and women killed in Iraq.
As well [...]
duckrabbit posted this on January 13th, 2010
“Our original mission was to provide airborn medical relief in the developing world but since 1992 we’ve been heavily involved in providing care here in the United States.”
Stan Brock, founder Remote Area Medical
Please do check out AP photographer Evan Vucci’s stunning multimedia feature about a charity providing medical care [...]
duckrabbit posted this on January 8th, 2010
Because someone has to state the bleeding obvious to all these photographers who want to save the world by taking wonky black and white photos and getting them up in galleries …
If you’re devoted to making it in the art world, you’re not exactly dedicated to making social change…
Which reminds me of [...]
duckrabbit posted this on 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:
duckrabbit posted this on December 18th, 2009
duckrabbit posted this on November 29th, 2009
and then there is the ICO Gallery in New York.
Both should be avoided but if I think my career would more be more likely to survive a dose of the plague then a stint on the ICO’s walls.
Intrigued? Read the ever brilliant Mark Page, of Manchester Photography fame for more [...]
duckrabbit posted this on November 29th, 2009
If you are one of the few who haven’t already taken time to read David Campbell’s post on photojournalism’s future duckrabbit highly recommends you do. Much of what he is saying is both simple and obvious, it’s just some photographers are still aching for a long lost dream whilst fading painfully into history. [...]
duckrabbit posted this on 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 [...]
duckrabbit posted this on November 29th, 2009
Adam Westbrook has a great blog on all things to do with journalism and new media. He’s also a contributing editor of duckrabbitblog. Good to see him not just commenting on new media journalism but also creating some of the stuff himself.
Adam’s audio slideshow,
‘Tells the story of John Hirst, a fascinating man [...]
duckrabbit posted this on November 13th, 2009
Its brilliant that Oxfam have put so much effort into creating an online documentary about the effects of climate change on the people of Bangladesh.
On the upside Oxfam used a local media team who were on the scene when cyclone Aila hit. Respect. There’s also a clear way of responding by sending a [...]
duckrabbit posted this on November 12th, 2009
According to wikipedia La Stampa (literally “The Press”) is one of the best-known, most influential and most widely sold Italian daily newspapers.
Not that I believe everything I read on Wikipedia!
Good to see though that the Italian Journalist Marco Bardazzi took time out to write about our new website.
Thanks for your kind [...]
duckrabbit posted this on November 8th, 2009
A Developing Story, a new website, which duckrabbit has helped get up and running, has been born:
Hopefully the title reflects our desire to create an open space on the web in which stories and images that explore the richness and complexity of an unequal world can find a home.
We will also [...]
duckrabbit posted this on November 7th, 2009
has been posted by Paul Melcher on the Black Star Rising blog. You can read the full post here. duckrabbit doesn’t entirely agree with him. I think its actually a bit of a cliche that NGO’s only show pictures of despair coming out of Africa. Actually I think a lot of what they show [...]
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