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“Peeing standing up is part of being a man”

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 Macinnes, [...]

‘he would have lived’

Ciara Leeming posted this on December 14th, 2010

If you were in any doubt about the damage America’s healthcare system wreaks on some families, then watch this piece. Part of a series by Everynone

That is all.

yours, Radio fan girl

Pete Masters, MSF’s web editor, fires a warning shot to photographers

duckrabbit posted this on October 19th, 2010

On paper Pete Masters is the web editor of MSF UK, and although he is a bit of a geek, Pete is so much more … he’s duckrabbit’s best ever student.

Now whilst MSF go into really troubled places and save lives (and a lot more), Pete isn’t all humanitarian, because secretly on the [...]

The Green Book Materials

duckrabbit posted this on May 22nd, 2010

This is a masterclass in documentary production. Nothing is out of place. Watch for the ending. It just crushed me.

The Green Book Materials from phos pictures on Vimeo.

Don McCullin Audio Slideshow on the BBC - Shaped by the War

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 [...]

Bruno Stevens, on Haiti (audio slideshow)

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. [...]

Do unto others ...

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 14th, 2009

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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 [...]

“Jack wasn’t going to get killed.”

duckrabbit posted this on August 28th, 2009

BBC audio slideshow, Father and Son, on duckabbit [...]

Charities, journalism and PR

duckrabbit posted this on August 15th, 2009

Adam Westbrook was one of a number of bloggers who followed up on duckrabbit’s post on MSF’s new cinema advert with a much wider analysis of how charities communicate:

‘At the heart of this lies the important question of how charities choose to spread their word. The public generally are now far less trusting of [...]

MSF Cinema advert … what do you think?

duckrabbit posted this on August 14th, 2009

WW2 Advert

Every now and then duckrabbit invites people to post here who have more interesting things to say about life than we do. Today its the turn of Pete Masters, MSF Uk’s web guru, a charity that provides medical support in response to humanitarian situations.

Basically they patch people up and save lives [...]

Where it’s at – Maisie Crow

duckrabbit posted this on August 4th, 2009

‘Where it’s at‘ is where duckrabbit profiles the work that inspires us. Last week we were privileged enough to feature the work of Joseph Rodriguez (we’ll be putting up some more of his multimedia features later on this week). Today the focus is on Maisie Crow.

Tonight Maisie will be officially [...]

Joseph Rodriguez – Where it’s at (part 1)

duckrabbit posted this on July 25th, 2009

This week we’re kicking off a new series ‘ Where it’s at’. This is where the finest work we sing about on duckrabbit will go. The stuff that kicks our ass.

Where better to start then with Joseph Rodriguez?

Regular readers will know that duckrabbit couldn’t give a toss about the tedious cult [...]

Multimedia -Sexual Warfare, Rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo

duckrabbit posted this on July 7th, 2009

When duckrabbit lived in Ethiopia the radio programmes that I managed regularly told stories of women and children who had been the victims of sexual violence. The stories were horrific. To say that that the problem is endemic is to put it mildly. Sexual violence against women and children is rampant the [...]

How to do it

David White posted this on June 22nd, 2009

Ok…after looking at mediocre photography day in day out for what seems ages, I was sent an email by Marco Vernaschi. He’s had a lot of exposure recently, and rightly so. His work is of a rare quality. He is technically totally in control, aesthetically he’s bang on and the stories he covers are epic. [...]

If you want to break someone’s heart, if you want them to care

duckrabbit posted this on June 21st, 2009

make it personal.

Maddi, the seven-year-old daughter of British hostage Jason Creswell, wrote to her father in May 2009 to say how much she missed him. It read: “To Daddy, I miss you very much, we all want you to come home. I love you very much…”

Today it has been announced that after [...]

Stevie Smith – Not Waving But Drowning

duckrabbit posted this on June 11th, 2009

Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning.Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he’s dead It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They said.

Oh, no no no, it was too cold [...]

Zimbabwe’s orhans – BBC Audio Slideshow

duckrabbit posted this on June 10th, 2009

There’s a quiet and thoughtful audio slideshow running on the BBC about the harsh reality of life for many of Zimabawe’s children. Take a moment out of your day to watch it and to reflect how ‘man hands on misery to man.’

The suffering in this world is only matched by the mass indifference towards [...]

duckrabbit photography competition – WIN $1000

duckrabbit posted this on June 6th, 2009

duckrabbit today launches an exciting new free entry photo competition with a twist. One lucky person will win a lip smackingly beautiful $1000. The task is simple … all you need to do is restore a little bit of duckrabbit’s faith in the world. Intrigued? Read on …

The roots of duckrabbit’s competition stated several [...]

Have you heard the light?

duckrabbit posted this on May 23rd, 2009

Photographer Oliver Edwards has. He’s just signed up for duckrabbit’s first Trinity Session.

The Trinity Sessions are for photographers and journalists who want to get their head round multimedia storytelling and in particular recording audio for slideshows.

Oliver has a degree in documentary photography from Newport University. The moving photos here are from a job [...]

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