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The voice is nothing but beaten air

duckrabbit posted this on May 21st, 2009

A few months ago I emailed a friend of mine who works in the Kibera slum in Nairobi suggesting they take a look at an amazing set of photos by Jehad Nga taken in the same slum.

‘My Shadow. My Opponent’ explores the lives, spaces and activities associated with boxing clubs in Kibera.

Instinctively I [...]

Viewing Restricted

duckrabbit posted this on May 14th, 2009

‘Viewing Restricted: [Re]presenting Poverty is a major new exhibition which sets out to explore different notions, representations and manifestations of ‘poverty’ within a global context. ‘

That’s the kind of introduction I’d have gently persuaded the journalists I’m training in Pakistan at the moment to dump.

But if you think that was a bit over [...]

The sight of homeless people in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa

duckrabbit posted this on May 5th, 2009

can really get to you after a while.

Wherever there are problems in the world you’ll find people profiting from the pain but you’ll also find kind souls who are trying to make a difference.

Mercato is one of the biggest markets in Africa. They say you can buy anything there, even a human, dead [...]

“As soon as they opened the door it smelt like death”

duckrabbit posted this on April 27th, 2009

I think duckrabbit would be a yardstick short of humanity to comment too much on For Their Own Good. Its brutal.

duckrabbit takes its many hats right off. Important, unforgettable stuff.

They were screwed-up kids, sent to the reform school in Marianna for smoking, fighting, stealing cars or worse. The Florida School for Boys — [...]

Sri Lanka – Human Rights Watch Audio Slideshow

duckrabbit posted this on April 18th, 2009

Be warned this is both an important and distressing audio slideshow about the current humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka that is not getting the media attention that it deserves.

Two weekends ago 100000 people marched in London to protest, three times more people then marched in the recent G20 protests in London and yet the [...]

Stay With Me – Maximiliano Braun Audio Slideshow – Breathtaking

duckrabbit posted this on April 17th, 2009

As an artist you have to decide what path you are going to walk down.

You have to decide what you want to do with your life, who you want to speak to, who you want to speak for.

You need a vision and you need a cause.

You need patience and you need hope.

[...]

“If you can smell the street by looking at the photo,

duckrabbit posted this on April 8th, 2009

then its a street photo.”

duckrabbit was blown away by the Bruce Gilden audio slideshow that I featured in a post earlier this week.

I was getting a feeling from his photographs that suggested a real antagonism between himself and the people he was photographing. To me it appeared that he was in some way [...]

“What is happening in America?”

duckrabbit posted this on April 6th, 2009

“Things are going to get worse …”

This Magnum in Motion audio slideshow is straight out of the bible. It speaks with the zeal of a prophet.

Its raw.

Damn Bruce Gilden there is electricity and power in your photographs. Nothing has come close to capturing the anger and the loss and the confusion and [...]

Real photography – Jerome Pollos

duckrabbit posted this on April 1st, 2009

So me and a photographer who goes by the name of Jerome Pollos have been having a ding dong in the comments section on another post on this blog.

To be honest I had him down as a moron, which just goes to show comments can be deceiving.

Jerome’s soliloquy on Alzheimer’s disease, LEFT BEHIND [...]

Children in need

duckrabbit posted this on April 1st, 2009

Over the last couple of days duckrabbit has had several thousand visitors in response to criticism of a photo of a girl seven year old girl undergoing female circumcision.

I’ve been really shocked that some ‘photojournalists’ don’t seem to work within a serious ethical framework; perhaps that’s to do with the fact that many of [...]

Children are ace

duckrabbit posted this on March 25th, 2009

duckrabbit’s phone rings.

It my youngest son’s teacher, Mrs Rose-Lean.

‘We have a problem’ she tells me. Uh Oh!

Luka has just flushed his pants down the toilet!

He’s only five God bless him.

I think she expects me to be annoyed, but I’m too busy laughing, and feeling sorry for Luka that he felt [...]

From the ridiculous (see last post ) to the sublime

duckrabbit posted this on March 9th, 2009

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 [...]

Girl in the war …

duckrabbit posted this on February 26th, 2009

Honestly I dunno what it is but I just need to get ‘dogs’ out of my system, and I promise this is the last mention of them on the blog for a while.

Maybe its because I did my growing up listening to Nick Drake, whose song ‘a black eyed dog’ is a terrifying lament [...]

And the dog photographer is …

duckrabbit posted this on February 25th, 2009

Carol Guzy. Who incidentally took the photographs for the most important multimedia project anywhere on the web last year.

What’s really interesting is that the photograph was originally taken in colour.

Here’s the one that received recognition in this years POY awards:

And here’s how the picture originally appeared in [...]

INNOCENCE – Sri Lanka’s former child soldiers

duckrabbit posted this on February 13th, 2009

This comes straight from duckrabbit’s heart, where else?

The Sri Lankan civil war has long been notorious for the LTTE’s recruitment of child soldiers. As the violence intensifies UNICEF is reporting that forcible recruitment of children is on the the increase despite assurances by the LTTE that they would no longer force children to fight. [...]

Dying for a flat stomach

duckrabbit posted this on February 8th, 2009

duckrabbit followed this link from photojournalism links about a new book by Paolo Pellegrin: As I Was Dying to be taken to a website called SLATE, where Paulo gave this explanation of his book:

just beneath was this set up advertisements:

The sad truth is people are more interested in a flat stomach [...]

(audio slideshow) ‘The rage grows and the tension increases

duckrabbit posted this on January 26th, 2009

with undiminished strength’.

duckrabbit recommends you watch Jan Socher’s audio slideshow, ‘Hunger and Rage‘ twice.

First time just take it all in.

Second time close your eyes and open your ears and let the scenes come tumbling back in whatever way they chose to move you.

I promise you, you won’t be alone.

duckrabbit’s [...]

(audio slideshow) ‘We carry the greatest weapon on earth

duckrabbit posted this on January 10th, 2009

which is justice.’

Proof for duckrabbit from AP that still pictures, with ambient audio, is often more powerful than a film.

Shocking.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

duckrabbit posted this on December 24th, 2008

Damn that was unexpected.

Skyped an old boss of mine today.¬† Just one of those people you can’t help but admire and who seems incapable of taking more than they give. Her older brother has been hit with a stroke and she’s now in South Africa feeding him though a tube.

Brutal.

At the end [...]

Zimbabwe audio slideshow – the golden age of reporting (not)

duckrabbit posted this on December 20th, 2008

The Committee to Protect Journalists website features an interesting audio slideshow about the lack of press freedom in Zimbabwe.

Anyone with knowledge of the country won’t be surprised by the feature, but that’s not the point. This is a much more powerful form of advocacy, of getting the message out there than a press release [...]

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