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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

Abundance – a photofilm

What a wonderful idea.

http://www.vimeo.com/35007176

“Abundance is a fruit harvesting and distribution project that started in Sheffield and since has inspired similar projects across the country. “It’s basically legal scrumping. Tree owners call Abundance, Abundance round up the volunteers, they harvest the fruit, returning some to the owners, and distributing, pickling, or making chutney [...]

Saving a nation’s memories

As well as being the 10th anniversary of 9/11, tomorrow also marks the six-month anniversary of the devastating Japanese earthquake and tsunami. And there, an army of volunteers have spent recent months working to restore and return photographs damaged in the March 11 disaster in order to save the nation’s memories. Click below for [...]

WOW WOW WOW. The most beautiful timelapse photofilm I have ever seen.

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.

More On The Future

Some interesting thoughts by Claudia Hinterseer of NOOR Images in this BJP article:

“The present is (roughly) making stories on spec and selling pics for publication in print, online and so on, the future is in initiating projects, multimedia, grants and foundations. To survive you have to do both for a period of time.”

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Photog Bites Off Video (and chews)

Making the transition from still photography to videography is bloody hard. There are no short cuts.  But rarely has someone made the transition so convincingly as Chinese based photographer Sean Gallagher. Armed with a grant from the Pulitzer Centre he’s been investigating the plight of the Chinese alligator.

Watch his short film and then read Sean [...]

For your viewing pleasure: The Big Caption

As you’ve probably read over the last week, we’re big fans of photo-blogs like the New York Times’ Lens blog, which showcase some of the best photography from around the world each and every day.

Alongside Lens, there’s also the Big Picture, run by the Boston Globe. Again, it shows big images every day [...]

Boston Big Picture vs BP

I tried to think of something clever to put here. Pointless.

LOOK.

raw beauty - Iceland's volcano

Sometimes you have to just sit back and marvel at the power of Mother Nature.

These photos by Icelandic photographer Ragnar Th. Sigurdsson of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano – currently causing so much misery for air passengers, airlines and not forgetting fruit, veg and flower growers in many developing countries – are quite incredible. [...]

Why Context Matters

Answers to the following questions will not be found here or here:

Who are these villagers?

What are their lives like?

How do they know how to strip an elephant?

What use is made of its bones, meat etc?

Why are they ’starved of meat’?

What makes the elephant a valuable commodity?

What is [...]

WOW WOW WOW

Watch this video featuring National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen … really do!

An illuminated view of climate change in Bangladesh

Yesterday in London I decided to get wonderfully lost. I had some hours to kill and so I started walking along the river not really caring where I ended up.

Where I ended up was the small but popular gallery beneath the OXO Tower, only 10 minutes from where I started. The building used [...]

Sometimes it takes just one picture...

…to show you the importance of stepping back, and slowing down.

…and sometimes we don’t even need a human being to take it.

ADAM WESTBROOK

Tsunami - five years on

It’s hard to believe that Saturday will mark five years since the devastating south Asian Tsunami which claimed some 300,000 lives. To mark this anniversary – hardly one to celebrate – DFID, the department for international development, dispatched Panos photographer Abbie Trayler Smith to show how British money has helped rebuild shattered lives in [...]

'Kenya hasn't seen a drop of rain for several years.'

If you have no knowledge about East Africa you might actually believe a statement like the one written above presumably by the photographer Stephano de Luigi on the VII website.

I’m wracking my brains to imagine how he (or someone else) could have got it so wrong, and how no-one else has spotted [...]

Oxfam and the Guardian launches interactive documentary on Bangladesh

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 [...]

Power politics

Keeping with the theme of environmental issues, mediastorm‘s latest multimedia feature is an exploration of the crisis posed by open-cast mining in the mountains of West Virginia, USA. Leveling Appalachia was put together for Yale Environment 360 and tells the chilling story of how flattening the hills in the quest for coal  is [...]

The Prix Pictet prize has just been announced

Great photo’s, but if the world is any less fucked for them I’m a coconut. (let’s face it we’re only talking about this award because the winner gets £50000)

UPDATE

On the Prix Pictet website Kofi Annan has said that,

The photographs were a compelling call for action to tackle climate change, the [...]

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 [...]

Is duckrabbit the only person dissapointed that Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize?

Seriously, I’m a big Obama fan and I think he’s done a lot already in reaching out to the world, but it seems a bit premature.

America, alongside China and India, is currently responsible for a large proportion of the world’s emissions of co2, the stuff that causes climate change. We’re pretty bad [...]

Typhoon Ketsana, on Boston Big Picture Blog

An incredible set of pictures.

Photography dead anyone?