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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Mike Lusmore posted this on January 16th, 2012
A boy holds his younger brother in Khulna, Bangladesh where there are over 34 million children living in poverty. © Mike Lusmore
It’s plain to see that people here in Bangladesh don’t have as much money in their pockets as the average westerner. The majority of children don’t get the education, nutrition and [...]
duckrabbit posted this on July 29th, 2011
If the video running off the front page of the Visa website is anything to go by they are:
MADNESS and DESPAIR? VIOLENCE and FEAR? EXODUS or maybe just WALKING FOR THE BUS? and BLACK AND WHITE STICK BENDING
I can’t wait and I’m really pleased to see that festival Director J F [...]
Ciara posted this on July 1st, 2011
There’s been a lot of coverage over recent months about the shock decision of the Arts Council not to continue revenue funding Newcastle’s renowned Side Gallery, run by Amber Collective, from March next year. An appeal process is underway but the folks who run the collective are looking for other sources of funding. [...]
duckrabbit posted this on June 7th, 2011
Lots of craft going on here, in more ways than one.
Kauri multimedia are based in Spain. There is a sweetness and light to their work. Wonderful.
Etienne Bellanger always wanted to be a luthier. At a young age he spent time in a luthier workshop, where he became instantly fascinated and hooked, [...]
duckrabbit posted this on June 4th, 2011
It’s funny to watch how photojournalism and advertising are merging. Pushed by the likes of World Press and Visa Festival of Shanty Towns, photojournalism is more and more judged as an aesthetic pursuit, bringing it closer and closer to (high end) advertising.
The holy grail of advertising on the other hand is authenticity, [...]
duckrabbit posted this on May 17th, 2011
For me there is always a story under the story in the best photofilms. James Hooker gets this.
Earlier this year I was invited to spend a couple of days with the undergraduates on the photojournalism course at London College of Communication (alongside duckrabbit’s teaching on the Masters course there). I’m not sure if [...]
duckrabbit posted this on May 2nd, 2011
Yesterday I put up a post that in part explored how highly staged and stylized photography has come to define how we perceive women survivors of rape in The Congo. I’ve been pretty amazed that no-one wants to defend what has become the pre-eminent way of working on projects as a documentary photographer/photojournalist? Shouldn’t we just admit what [...]
duckrabbit posted this on May 1st, 2011
close today.
Last year they awarded the major grant to Stefano De Luigi for a project title T.I.A, ‘This Is Africa’. If you get to the end of this (extended) post you’ll be able to read what a group of Kenyan photographers think of the judges choice but for those who don’t stay the [...]
duckrabbit posted this on April 25th, 2011
The Democratic Republic of Congo is the most colourful place I’ve ever visited. The women even smile.
Madam Agata teaches a group of women in their last month of pregnancy to knit (c) Yasuyoshi Chiba/duckrabbit/MSF
Infact it’s the Muzungus (white people) who were the most drab, including this dodgy looking geezer:
duckrabbit posted this on April 20th, 2011
Every now and again duckrabbit has the pleasure of training someone who understands that to nail a great photofilm has as much to with sweat as it does talent. David Mansell-Moullin has worked his photofilm ‘To The Desert’, close to perfection.
Short, poetic and speaking to my heart. I hope it speaks to yours [...]
duckrabbit posted this on April 18th, 2011
Those are just a few of the words that come to mind watching Margaret Cheatham Williams’ photofilm Goodnight Moon (first spotted on the excellent Innovative Interactivity).
There’s been a lot of debate around the use of cinematic techniques to film traumatic events. Dan Chung’s video of the aftermath of the Japanese Earthquake is a [...]
duckrabbit posted this on April 16th, 2011
WOW. No Really. WOW.
WOW.
One day someone will make a photofilm as beautiful as this and combine it with a story and blow everyone’s minds …this will blow your mind anyway and I guess the story is MOTHER NATURE.
The Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.
duckrabbit posted this on April 15th, 2011
This is an astonishing photofilm about how one small fishing community has been affected by the BP Oil disaster. What the photofilm lacks in context about the disaster it makes up for in emotional punch and as good a set of documentary photography as you are likely to see.
I take my hat off [...]
duckrabbit posted this on April 7th, 2011
Its very hard to keep an audience glued to your photofilm unless you offer them a gripping opening 30 seconds and openings don’t get stronger then in Florence Royer’s photofilm about one soldier’s attempts to come to terms with life after combat in Iraq.
Florence was one of the students at LCC last year [...]
duckrabbit posted this on April 5th, 2011
followed by a series of even more thought provoking responses to Jake Price’s black and white pictures on show.
Here’s just a few:
I think of all the bullshit around photography the idea that somehow a photo in black and white is a deeper more truthful representation of life is amongst the [...]
duckrabbit posted this on March 22nd, 2011
Goddamn this is a project and a half barrel of whisky.
Immense.
Damian Drohan is one of the most committed students duckrabbit has had the pleasure to train. It gives me great honor to introduce you to his monumental project about the unknown, unrecognized Irish veterans of World War 2 (be sure to [...]
duckrabbit posted this on March 21st, 2011
Here is a lovely, powerful and thought provoking insight (photofilm) into one man’s journey into blindness.
It was sent to me by Emily Macinnes, a young photography student at Nottingham Trent University, who rocked up to the duckrabbit/rhubarb training at the Format festival on Saturday (cracking event, thanks to all).
Remember that name, Emily [...]
duckrabbit posted this on February 27th, 2011
During the judging of the recent World Press Awards one thing you can trust is that, on the whole, the judges will pick great pictures. With a hundred thousand or so to chomp through they’d have to be visually illiterate to do anything else. But can you trust that the work they pick [...]
duckrabbit posted this on February 25th, 2011
Bruce Gilden’s foreclosure work is essential. I first wrote about it in April 2009 saying,
‘This Magnum in Motion audio slideshow is straight out of the bible. It speaks with the zeal of a prophet.
It’s raw.
Damn Bruce Gilden there is electricity and power in your photographs. Nothing has come close to capturing [...]
duckrabbit posted this on February 2nd, 2011
Got a cool email this morning. Samira Hack, who was a prominent voice in the Open Eye documentary and photofilm I made with Joseph Rodriguez got in contact with Joseph with these words:
‘All that I can say is, Finally! I am very pleased with the results [...]
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