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

shifting sands – desertification in China

Sean Gallagher won Magnum photographer David Alan Harvey’s first Emerging Photographer Fund in 2008, and used the prize to travel to China to photograph the devastating effects of desertification on the most populous country on earth. Since then he has also received grant money to continue his work from the Pulitzer [...]

The Snakebox Oddessy by Paul Close (where it’s at)

Bang. Bang. Bang. WOW.

This blew me away.

I mean this REALLY BLEW ME AWAY.

For more info look here and here.

If you only look at one thing on the web this week go here.

If you are a blogger please spread the word on this amazing work.

Paul Close, duckrabbit salutes you!

Some of the Amercian NGO’s are creating amazing multimedia

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 [...]

Audio Slidehow – A kick in the bricks (Ciara Leeming)

Elizabeth Pascoe took on the authorities – and lost – when her home was earmarked for demolition under Liverpool’s Edge Lane development scheme.

Bill Booth has lived on a half-derelict street in Manchester for a decade and still has no idea if it will survive a regeneration scheme.

Theirs are among up to 400,000 [...]

Rhubard with lashings of custard

You know how it is. Friday night you’ve planned to go somewhere but everyone else pulls out. It gets to about nine o’clock and you think can I really be arsed? Nine times out of ten I’d lock myself away but a few Friday’s back I pushed myself out the door to go and have [...]

Boston Big Picture: Typhoon Morakot

In typically brilliant fashion BOSTON BIG PICTURE is running a series on typhoon Morakot, which has been battering vast areas of Asia.

And death came along …

A man looks over the expanse of ruins left by the explosion of the atomic bomb on in Hiroshima, Japan. (AP Photo)

I am trying to imagine the shock of a nuclear bomb taking out your city at the moment you sit down for breakfast. It’s not really the kind [...]

Tom from Photography Lot (see links) sent me here