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 March 7th, 2010
There’s a bag piper who stalks the streets of Kings Heath, where duckrabbit lives. Well there was until he disapeared a few weeks ago. Turns out the local mafia put his feet in concrete and dropped him off Spagehtti Junction during rush hour. Can’t say anyone was too outraged because when he was about the [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on February 3rd, 2010
Don McCullin is not only a great photographer but he’s also a great talker. I caught him this morning on the BBC’s TODAY programme. It was a powerful listen. Important too to hear a photographer talk about the cost to his mental health of the work he does. The BBC are hosting an audio slideshow:
Don [...]
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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 as excellent use of [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on January 5th, 2010
Have to say I’m not that arsed about seeing Tim Hetherington’s new documentary Restrepo, which follows the lives of a group of American soldiers in Afghanistan throughout a year. Why? Because it will probably only accentuate an already piss poor stereotypical vision of Afghanistan, told from one side only, much as the massively overrated [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on December 14th, 2009
(click on photo, the video player will load, then click again to play)
It’s one of those moments you don’t forget.
This term I’ve been a guest lecturer at Birmingham City University. I sat twenty students down in front of one of the four videos we’ve been producing for MSF (more of that in a [...]
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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 who is almost [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on November 20th, 2009
The headline on the BBC website reads:
In Pictures: Rebuilding Wrecked Lives After Sierra Leone’s civil war
Sounds interesting?
Then I flicked to the set and found another story to the one sold to me in the headline.
There’s nothing technically wrong with Nick Danzinger’s black and white pictures of people from Sierra Leone except that it [...]
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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 is [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on October 22nd, 2009
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duckrabbit posted this on October 15th, 2009
I read a comment on Lightstalkers by a photojournalist who said that growing up in London twenty years ago he wasn’t aware of any racism. It’s typical of a revisionist version of the world that has been prevalent in the comments sections of many photography blogs the past couple of months since Stan Banos sparked [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on October 8th, 2009
Yesterday duckrabbit pointed out the success of a rather brilliant advertisement for the military might of the Chinese Communist party by Dan Chung.
Chung has been in touch to let duckrabbit know that as a typical Westerner I’m totally out of touch.
His response (in bold) is worth considering. He’s annoyed by my claim that the video [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on October 6th, 2009
Amnesty International is an organisation that duckrabbit fully supports. One of the best ways of achieving a more equal world is to stop human rights abuses and that’s exactly what Amnesty sets out to do.
Brilliant then to see how highly they regard photography as a tool to achieve social justice. duckrabbit will be speaking [...]
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Adam Westbrook posted this on September 23rd, 2009
This week long mini series by the Globe and Mail is causing quite the stir among multimedia journalists this week. Tracy Boyer’s eagle eye spotted it on the weekend, and it’s had plaudits from the likes of The Travel Photographer and The Bombay Flying Club.
I like it too, for several reasons:
it’s full screen (why hasn’t [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on September 11th, 2009
Two of the best are The Open Society Institute and Human Rights Watch.
Why are they so good? Because they are creating seriously good journalism for all the right reasons. They want to educate and inform people about what’s really going on in the world, not just tap them up for cash.
Ed Kashi’s work in the [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on September 2nd, 2009
Ibrahim Jassam- Imprisoned Journalist
More than half a year into it (Obama Presidency), we still have: a widening war, rendition, Blackwater (XE) Mercs, legalized domestic spying, kowtowing to Republicans, corporations, financial institutions, etc, etc, etc… Change we’ve yet to live in!
So it’s no surprise that despite being ordered released by the Iraqi courts, Iraqi photojournalist Ibrahim [...]
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