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duckrabbit posted this on December 14th, 2009
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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 [...]
duckrabbit posted this on November 30th, 2009 The great Stan Banos first emailed me to alert me to a photo story doing the rounds about women who have been attacked with acid. The act is cowardly and the response from the authorities is usually non-existent.
A page of the photos by Emilio Morenatti is showing on Tampabay.com. I struggle a bit with [...]
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 [...]
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 message [...]
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 be [...]
duckrabbit posted this on October 22nd, 2009
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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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 [...]
duckrabbit posted this on September 8th, 2009
MISS HIV STIGMA FREE 2007 BOTSWANA..TSHEBETSO THOBOLO comes on stage at the MISS HIV pageant to great applause. (c) David White
Stories about HIV and AIDS in Africa are often presented as either one of polar opposites. There are the news outlets who tend to publish negative stories, sometimes with a picture [...]
duckrabbit posted this on August 15th, 2009 Adam Westbrook was one of a number of bloggers who followed up on duckrabbit’s post on MSF’s new cinema advert with a much wider analysis of how charities communicate:
‘At the heart of this lies the important question of how charities choose to spread their word. The public generally are now far less trusting of [...]
duckrabbit posted this on August 14th, 2009 WW2 Advert
Every now and then duckrabbit invites people to post here who have more interesting things to say about life than we do. Today its the turn of Pete Masters, MSF Uk’s web guru, a charity that provides medical support in response to humanitarian situations.
Basically they patch people up and save lives [...]
duckrabbit posted this on July 25th, 2009
This week we’re kicking off a new series ‘ Where it’s at’. This is where the finest work we sing about on duckrabbit will go. The stuff that kicks our ass.
Where better to start then with Joseph Rodriguez?
Regular readers will know that duckrabbit couldn’t give a toss about the tedious cult [...]
duckrabbit posted this on July 7th, 2009
When duckrabbit lived in Ethiopia the radio programmes that I managed regularly told stories of women and children who had been the victims of sexual violence. The stories were horrific. To say that that the problem is endemic is to put it mildly. Sexual violence against women and children is rampant the [...]
duckrabbit posted this on June 19th, 2009 The BBC is running both an inspiring and thoughtful audio slideshow.
Audio slideshow: Faces of the favelas
The French artist JR first made his mark in Rio de Janeiro last year, as giant posters of staring eyes started appearing on buildings in the city’s oldest favela.
He was drawn there following the controversial deaths of [...]
duckrabbit posted this on June 16th, 2009
In January 2008, I received a grant to travel to Haiti with my brother to document the work of an elderly man who started an orphanage after living through the violent government upheavals in the 1980s.
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duckrabbit posted this on June 16th, 2009
I have to admit when MSF launched its Condition Critical website, a multimedia insight into life in Congo, it felt like it could be a real turning point in the way that NGO’s expressed their work. Unfortunately the opening fanfare was followed by silence, and I suspect a lot of people lost interest.
Not [...]
duckrabbit posted this on June 13th, 2009 In this series of photographs the Boston Big Picture brings us the faces of the children affected by the ongoing military offensive in North Eastern Pakistan. It is estimated at least 3 million people have been displaced; the majority women and children.
Hang on a minute did duckrabbit really say three million? That’s more people [...]
duckrabbit posted this on June 10th, 2009 There’s a quiet and thoughtful audio slideshow running on the BBC about the harsh reality of life for many of Zimabawe’s children. Take a moment out of your day to watch it and to reflect how ‘man hands on misery to man.’
The suffering in this world is only matched by the mass indifference towards [...]
duckrabbit posted this on May 23rd, 2009 Photographer Oliver Edwards has. He’s just signed up for duckrabbit’s first Trinity Session.
The Trinity Sessions are for photographers and journalists who want to get their head round multimedia storytelling and in particular recording audio for slideshows.
Oliver has a degree in documentary photography from Newport University. The moving photos here are from a job [...]
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