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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

Joseph Rodriguez - Where it's at part 5

I was recently was given a much coveted copy of Joseph Rodriguez’s East Side Stories. It’s lush. It just re-confirms for me that the best place to see photography is in a book.

Galleries are good, but they often carry an elitist edge and rednecks like duckrabbit can feel a bit out of place.

The computer [...]

The best collection to be part of

 

The Big Picture brings today a fascinating set of shots I wanted to share with the duckrabbit readers.  A colourfull, imaginative, breathtaking collection of kisses. Just as kisses should be.

Reflecting reality through kisses is a very beautiful way of showing our humanity. I hope you can enjoy this 33 pictures taken by a wide range of photographers, depicted all in boston.com.

Maybe this [...]

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 of thinking [...]

Sometimes the story is all in the caption: ‘Audience at Oldham’s first gay pride parade’

(c) Liz Lock and Mishka Henner

Wow. This picture just floors me.

Manchester based Liz Lock and Mishka Henner have some great photography on their website.   They also run Redeye:

‘What is Redeye?

Redeye, the Photography Network, is based in North West England. [...]

Introducing: the real journalist of the future?

Adam Westbrook

Blogger Adam Westbrook has some very interesting things to say about the journalist of the future.  He forgot to point out that no doubt

1.they’ll still be pissheads

and

2. most of their time will be spent dredging up highly embarrassing photos of celebrities you’ve never heard of (and bloggers), off social networking sites.

p.s.

WESTBROOK just in [...]

Benjamin Jarosch – The Banks

Regular duckrabbit readers will know that I’m not a big fan of black and white photography. David White, the photographer in duckrabbit, says it’s my blind slot. He’s right, but I’m learning.

I’ve just come across another learner. Benjamin Jarosch, a young New York based photographer looked me up on Skype to chew the [...]

Children displaced by violence in Pakistan – Boston Big Picture

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 than [...]

I keep being drawn back to Soft Cities

John Bennett’s photographic poem to London life.

Today this photo by Claire Hutton caught my eye. You could see it but instead Claire has written to say:

‘Duckrabbit you are very, very naughty, bad people for taking one of my photos that I’ve published on-line for everybody here to see and then putting it on your blog, [...]

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”

So said the Henry Miller.

It’s with a rush then that I’ve just taken in GMB Akash’s photo set Take me Home:

Due to Bangladesh’s large population, inadequate seats on the trains and poverty, it is quite common to see a thick layer of people occupying the roof of a train. Frequent accidents, which occur when [...]

CNN should fire the producer of this audio slideshow

of James Nachtwey’s photos in Afghanistan, taken for the Red Cross.

Why?

Because they don’t seem to think the photos are good enough to present as stills. Instead they’ve got all those stomach churning Ken Burns effect going on.  Seasick slideshows we call them at duckrabbit.

The point about a still photo is that your eye explores it. [...]

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, (which [...]

From the ridiculous (see last post ) to the sublime

Boston.com’s ‘The Big Picture’ is a thing of wonder.¬† Alan Taylor, who edits it, has both an eye and a heart for the world.

I’ve just stumbled across a particularly powerful gallery on the website of the work of Finbarr O’Reilly.

Not too long back I raved about an audio slideshow by Finbarr about the Congo which [...]

Too close to the sun?

A British Midland Boeing 737 which crashed on the M1 motorway at Kegworth, UK, in 1989. PIC BY JOHN ROBERTSON.

duckrabbit came across John Robertson’s excellent blog by chance a couple of weeks back.

This photo and the following blog entry stopped me dead in my tracks.  John very honestly bursting the bullshit macho mythology that [...]