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Ciara Leeming posted this on February 23rd, 2010
Following on from Platon’s recent civil rights portraits in the New Yorker, Magnum’s Bruce Davidson looks back at his time documenting the period in Time of Change, a short yet effective multimedia piece on In Motion.
Ciara Leeming posted this on February 9th, 2010
It’s difficult to squash a big subject like the US civil rights movement into a 15 minute multimedia piece but Platon’s current project for the New Yorker at least offers a taster so anyone with an interest will hopefully look into the era more deeply. Contemporary portraits of some of the (often very elderly) [...]
Ciara Leeming posted this on February 9th, 2010
Photographer Stephen Ferry has spent the best part of a decade documenting the brutal Colombian civil war. Its population is terrrorised by both the left-wing guerillas and the right-wing paramilitary groups (who are often linked to the government and police) and their shadowy successors. The conflict is not only ideological – the lucrative drug [...]
Tiana posted this on February 4th, 2010 Some photography creates distances, puts the people in the pics out on some distant horizon you’ll never reach, nor would you want to. Other photography closes the gap, creates understanding and feels like a genuine conversation. Mostly, but not exclusively, that’s the photography I love and that’s the photography Tiana Markova-Gold creates.
I first came [...]
duckrabbit posted this on February 3rd, 2010 Don McCullin is not only a great photographer but he’s also a great talker. I caught him this morning on the BBC’s TODAY programme. It was a powerful listen. Important too to hear a photographer talk about the cost to his mental health of the work he does. The BBC are hosting an audio [...]
duckrabbit posted this on February 2nd, 2010 This powerful audio slideshow is brought impressively to life by Olince Calixte, a blind street musician from Port au Prince.
It’s also a journey from pain, trauma and shock through to the first signs of recovery. For me it tells a much more balanced story of the aftermath than many sets of photos out there. [...]
Ciara Leeming posted this on February 1st, 2010
Sadly people are not really interested in the photographs I take of a rather depressing side of our society – Don McCullin.
In 1989, British photojournalist Don McCullin approached the current affairs programme Newsnight with the idea of a highlighting the growing problem of London’s homeless – a short film that can now been [...]
Ciara Leeming posted this on January 25th, 2010
Magnum’s Susan Meiselas on photography’s potential to connect and move audiences by “expanding the circle of knowledge” about human rights and social justice issues.
CIARA LEEMING
duckrabbit posted this on January 13th, 2010
“Our original mission was to provide airborn medical relief in the developing world but since 1992 we’ve been heavily involved in providing care here in the United States.”
Stan Brock, founder Remote Area Medical
Please do check out AP photographer Evan Vucci’s stunning multimedia feature about a charity providing medical care in [...]
duckrabbit posted this on January 8th, 2010 Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful work. Would have loved to have read the text that went with.
Please take note … that’s the work of a proper multimedia journalist.
THANK YOU Torsten Kjellstrand of the Oregonian
duckrabbit posted this on December 25th, 2009 Very roughly some 2000 years ago we nailed some bloke called Jesus to a tree.
Nothing new about that. Nailing people to trees was a rather effective form of crowd control.
Since then though a lot of people have been following this Jesus bloke. One of his oft quoted mantras was treat other people people [...]
duckrabbit posted this on December 18th, 2009 A few days back I exchanged emails with the photographer Stephen Alvarez, who for the last fifteen years has shot for National Geographic. He suggested we take the conversation onto our blogs.
If you’re not aware of his work than I would say it is characterized by being both hard won and sublime:
(c) [...]
duckrabbit posted this on December 15th, 2009 Oxfam have billed it as possibly the most important meeting in history. And it probably is, until the next one.
We are of course talking about the Copehagen Climate talks.
But after a week of, well not a lot, do people care?
Take a look at David’s pictures in the post below. All snapped in [...]
duckrabbit posted this on December 14th, 2009
(click on photo, the video player will load, then click again to play)
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 December 8th, 2009 Just wish more photographers told stories about the developing world with the depth and insight of this production by the Los Angeles Times.
Somebody taught this filmmaker how to listen …
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 29th, 2009 Adam Westbrook has a great blog on all things to do with journalism and new media. He’s also a contributing editor of duckrabbitblog. Good to see him not just commenting on new media journalism but also creating some of the stuff himself.
Adam’s audio slideshow,
‘Tells the story of John Hirst, a fascinating man who [...]
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 14th, 2009 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 it? [...]
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 [...]
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