Writing Here:

duckrabbit
David White
Ciara Leeming
John Macpherson
Peter
Sara Trula
Carl Pendle
Joni Karanka
Mike Lusmore
Madeleine Corcoran

The blogging half of duckrabbit is away for a week …

where there is no internet, but lots of wind and rain and other things that will do me good.

Why journalists deserve low pay

Interesting……

Mridu Khullar thinks:

also worth reading is a response by freelance journalist Erik Sherman.

Why Readers Deserve No Journalism: http://industry.bnet.com/media/10002308/why-readers-deserve-no-journalism/

Nice to see the BJP blog giving a shout out

for duckrabbits forthcoming multimedia (audio slideshow) training in Bristol. (Spaces still available.)

Forward thinking photographers are getting themselves trained in the art of recording audio. The rest are still looking to the sky.

Multimedia webinar – LIVEBOOKS

Beyond the Still Photograph – a look at adding audio to slideshow

Ed Kashi @ resolve

Miki at Resolve kindly pointed this out to Benjamin and I : A very honest piece by acclaimed snapper Ed Kashi, discussing how he tries to balance family life with work, the insecurities that brings and all the other doubts that creep in when he’s on assignment.

It is a very interesting topic. For me, [...]

How to win a WPP award

I was browsing the foto8 site a day ago, and found an interesting page written by Paul Lowe. On it he discusses what Steve Mayes-who has served as World Press Photo Jury Secretary for the past six years, but who has now retired-considers the golden rules to win a wpp award.

Here they are:

“Rule [...]

‘A snapshot of life’

duckrabbit have just been sent a very interesting email from Valentina Bau at Panos London telling us (and now you) about work they have been doing with digital storytelling.

Panos London promote the participation of poor and marginalised people in national and international development debates through media and communication projects. Sounds good to us.

To [...]

STOP PRESS!!! JORDAN AND PETER ARE SEPARATING!!!

Well, you heard it here first. Or maybe you just saw it on the front page of the BBC news website. That is pretty important news, right up there on the global scale. Luckily for us there is not much else going on in the world right now, so the beeb were able to squeeze [...]

If the blog’s a bit quiet next week

it’s cause duckrabbit is in Pakistan.

Imber

I was lucky enough this Easter to get into Imber, a tiny village in the middle of Salisbury Plain. Normally the village is closed to the public..what’s left of it anyway. I went out of personal curiousity really, I fancied motoring down there in my ancient and beautiful amazon…but thought I might as well take [...]

STOP PRESS NASA LAUNCHES CAMERA TO END ALL CAMERAS

With one click you can stop time, walk through a scene capturing it in 3D, and with another click start the world revolving again.

The special model will come with a bullet proof vest.

Sorry not sure what’s slowing the blog down to a crawl

maybe a dose of swine flu?

Hope to have it sorted soon.

It’s better to burn out

then fade away …

Expiration notice 3, the best yet (and some):

Bill Vaccaro- Jesus Is On The Mainline

A White Stunner …

duckrabbit’s partner in crime David White has been working on a cracking story about a village on Salisbury Plain (where Stonehenge is found) that suffered a forced evacuation during the first world war. The Yanks wanted it to practice close combat, ready for the planned invasion of mainland Europe.

I’ve been editing David’s audio today, [...]

My student’s work…awesome.

As Ben mentioned below, I have been out this week working with disadvantaged teens and NEETS (not in education, employment or training) running a documentary photography course. Unfortunately I only ended up with three students, when I was supposed to have six, but no matter…I was able to spend more time with the three students [...]

Be warned this Guardian video is depressing

I can’t recommend that you watch this video of an Afghani woman being flogged. Its very disturbing. Truth is it’s not that different to what goes on behind closed doors in the developing Western world, where women and children are often beaten with impunity.

I should know I was beaten regularly as a child growing [...]

Stay with me – Maximiliano Braun

Following on from duckrabbit’s last post I’d like to congratulate Maximiliano Braun on receiving a Getty grant for his moving project:

Stay With Me ‘The Getty Images grant will allow me to continue a project I began in South Africa, looking into the lives of families caring for a relative living in a vegetative state [...]

Only 3% of the population trust journalists

If you believe that you’ll believe anything It can’t possibly be more than 2%

I was fed up with FLASH

so when our server kicked the bucket I decided to kick our business website into touch with it.

Our new website is run like our blog, on the mighty WordPress.

Like us, its a lot more down to earth.

Hope you like it.

SORRY

our servers hard drive failed … so we’ve moved to another company and hopefully, fingers crossed things will be all back to normal in the next couple of days … then again …

THANKS for your patience

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