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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

Photojournalism and ‘What is the point of ‘exclusivity’ these days?’

Like many, I have been glued to my computer watching the epic events in Egypt unfold. Images coming in from all over, different views every day, a plethora of images.

Visually I have a great handle on things thanks to the amazing power of the tintertwizzle.

I noticed Time shouting that they had an [...]

duckrabbit ‘Imber, the ghost village’ photofilm on the BBC

Good to see David’s photofilm about the abandoned village of Imber finding a home on the BBC Website.

A big THANK YOU to the BBC’s Photo Editor, Phil Coomes for publishing the story.

WOW ... just ...WOW

I found this again whilst cleaning up round t’back…it is amazing, and funny, and you need to watch it. Again.

Photograph of Jesus by Laurie Hill in association with the Getty Images Short & Sweet Film Challenge from Hulton Archive on [...]

Climate change Bangladesh

Bonjournio mon amigos,

Couple more pics for you fine folk. The first one was taken in a tiny village called Forki. I had been walking through the village to take pics of where the water had taken the land, and had found myself quickly surrounded by the local kids. After distracting the youngsters by [...]

Bangladesh - the reality of climate change.

I have decided to put up a selection of images that I shot in Bangladesh over the couple of weeks that Benjamin and I were there. I have chosen to present this selection in mono as I feel that works best for most of these images. Originally of course they were all spat out [...]

Zen and the art of Sandcastles

Sometimes the real art is in letting go …

“It was like being a proper journalist again …. turning up in a town you’ve never been to and not being allowed to leave until you’ve got a story.“ Last Weekend duckrabbit ran its first multimedia training course at the Trinity Arts Centre, in [...]

How to do it

Ok…after looking at mediocre photography day in day out for what seems ages, I was sent an email by Marco Vernaschi. He’s had a lot of exposure recently, and rightly so. His work is of a rare quality. He is technically totally in control, aesthetically he’s bang on and the stories he covers are [...]

Come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough…

Well, it’s not often a pic like this one gets posted to you. Melvin Bunclarke sent me this awesome shot. Thanks Melvin.

Can you guess what it is yet?.

Here’s a clue: Melvin and his wife are trying for a baby. It’s not working, they need some help.

Melvin has to provide the IVF [...]

Bye Huw

Below is a shot of Huw, whose funeral I was at today. Huw was proud of this picture. It was taken at a Reclaim the Streets demo in Bristol back in the day, in the middle of the M32 motorway into the city. There is going to be a big party tonight in Huw’s [...]

Surfing Liberia?

Photojournalist Glenna Gordon has a nice story about surfing in Liberia running on the BBC website but it barely scratches beneath the waves.

The Liberians are literally portrayed as shadows whilst the expat NGO workers step out into the light. Drawn to Liberia by the ‘the waves’.

Why?

Maybe its the BBC edit because [...]

I dig FOTO8′s latest audio slidshow -Ben Graville peeps into the windows of prison vans

I think it’s an interesting piece of social commentary but what do you make of the music?

Ciara Leeming

love the idea but when i watched it this morning i had to turn the sound down. sorry, but the music just doesn’t fit…

Mike Holley is more impressed

Hmmm, when I first watched [...]

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‘Learn from the best’ – Adam Westbrook

Some stats

Last month duckrabbit topped 10000 visitors for the first time.

As ever thanks for dropping by. We promise to keep telling it as we see it … even if we annoy a few people who should know better along the way.

Benjamin

Hard to believe

Impossible to ignore

Unless you’re human

To Huw

This is a sad post. I don’t know how to write it. A friend of mine, and of many others, has gone.  Huw was sad and struggling, and now he’s hopefully at rest. I urge anyone who is in a really dark place to go and talk to someone, please. I know that can [...]

Negotiations…

Aaah…here is a real world lesson in photographer/client relationships. See if you can guess which is which…

Survival!

Just read some interesting views from Jean-Francois Leroy, founder of Visa pour l’Image. He is talking about how agencies have helped kill photojournalism. He has some interesting points, it’s worth a read. I was also struck by this line: “The festival will also host multimedia projects for the first time. ‘We’re not doing it [...]

A hop, skip, and a ha-ha jump.

I don’t know much about ha-ha’s, but they make me laugh (drum roll please). My gaff’s not big enough to warrant such extravaganze, but I was at a wedding at the weekend (see below) and there was a ha-ha there. I had taken along my Leica and a few rolls of c41 black and [...]

Wedding fun!

Yep, you read that right. With a carefully planned drinking strategy, weddings can be fun Seriously, I went to a quality wedding last weekend. I had a great day and it was a beautiful venue, and the couple getting married are alright too…;) I took along a camera for fun, and got some sweet [...]

Great work:)

I have been stumbling around the interweb when I came across some wonderful photography here.

There is a fantastic and diverse collection of work on the site, well worth some of your precious time.