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
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duckrabbit posted this on July 30th, 2010
Tonight I have followed Rabbit’s link to Jodi Bieber’s powerful and dignified photos of women in Afghanistan. I then went to look at the Editor of TIME, RICHARD STENGE’s, explanation of why he put the following photograph on the front cover:
‘Our cover image this week is powerful, shocking and disturbing. It is a portrait [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on July 12th, 2010
This is a powerful photofilm by Eric Johnson. Some strong photographs and perfectly recorded audio, proving once more that a simple approach is often best.
‘The 30th Street Men´s Shelter, otherwise known as Bellevue, is New York City’s largest homeless shelter. A combination of mentally ill, parolees, substance abusers and people simply down on their luck [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on July 10th, 2010
‘Obsession, commitment, love‘, that’s how Anna Carter describes her relationship with Carter’s Steam Fair, the largest original touring vintage fairground anywhere in the world.
And that’s exactly what’s on show at a new duckrabbit exhibition at Reading Museum. Our photofilm ‘Fairground Attraction’, is being projected alongside fifty of Rabbit’s wonderful photos that capture the magic of [...]
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Adam Westbrook posted this on June 26th, 2010
For some time, Apple’s computers have dominated the creative industry’s workspace; their reliability, fast processing speed and ownership of some of the industry standard software (Final Cut Pro in particular) makes them the must-have for any journalist, writer, film maker, photographer.
Oh and they also look nice.
But Macs have one big flaw which myself and duckrabbit feel [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on June 13th, 2010
We are in the middle of sustained crisis for journalism. The global recession has accentuated the business problems for journalism in the UK, much of Europe and America. Of course, the news industry is booming in many parts of the world such as India and China and even Africa. However, underpinning the [...]
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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.
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duckrabbit posted this on May 19th, 2010
This is essential work that deserves widespread recognition. It’s not sexy because the people in the stories are mainly working class white people but it’s a template for in depth reportage on an important subject.
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duckrabbit posted this on May 19th, 2010
“What happened to us should not happen to anyone.”
Photographer Susan Meiselas and reporter Dumeetha Luthra traveled to India for Human Rights Watch to retrace the steps of one woman who died after giving birth to a son.
Powerful and respectful work.
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duckrabbit posted this on May 17th, 2010
Look at the first photo. What do you see?
(C) Benjamin Chesterton
How does your reading of the first photo change when you see the second?
(c) Benjamin Chesterton
The two photos are taken at the same place and within seconds of each other and yet the meaning of the first photograph is only [...]
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Adam Westbrook posted this on May 16th, 2010
One of the hardest things about working for yourself as a journalist or producer is keeping in the habit of finding, researching and producing stories.
At first, you’re not as exposed to them as much as you would be in a newsroom. Inspiration is hard to come by. Good contacts even harder.
It’s easy this way to find [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on April 16th, 2010
The BBC have featured some pretty surprising audio slideshows about life in Gaza and the West Bank, not least one duckrabbit features before about Palestinian Bagpipers.
Here’s an audio slideshow that will get Rabbit salivating (being an owner and restorer of classic cars):
Israel and Egypt’s blockade of Gaza means there are very few new cars in [...]
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Adam Westbrook posted this on April 13th, 2010
When Duckrabbit gave a mention to Carousel SlideSlam, Foto8′s new evening for photographers and multimedia producers, the warning was it: “could either be utterly sublime or pretentious crap.”
With such a plug I just had to go along to see for myself.
And the verdict: while it wasn’t utterly sublime, it was about as far from pretentious crap [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on April 2nd, 2010
Another powerful audio slideshow by the Paul Kerley of the BBC.
The husband of American photographer and writer Judith Fox – Dr Ed Ackell – was told he had Alzheimer’s Disease in 1998, three years into the couple’s marriage.
Judith took photographs to capture his gradual decline.
‘I was photographing Ted to keep him close as he was leaving [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on April 1st, 2010
by working for the newspapers as a freelance photojournalist then take some time to check out the rates they pay.
Click on the pic to go to the NUJ website:
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duckrabbit posted this on March 25th, 2010
The devastation caused by TB is a rarely told story. For many people in the developed world TB is a disease consigned to history. If only. Two million people still die every year from TB.
To mark TB day the BBC is running this powerful and informative slideshow featuring the photography of David Rochkind, whose [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on March 24th, 2010
Before I joined the BBC the one news programme that I would always try and catch was the World at One on BBC Radio 4. It had in Nick Clarke the best news presenter and in Kevin Marsh the best Editor. Kevin went on to take charge of the Today Programe, arguably Britain’s most important current [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on March 24th, 2010
‘There is a decades-old criticism of the “outsider,” most often journalists from developed nations, arriving in underdeveloped nations to tell the story of “insiders.” Whether HIV/AIDS in sub–Saharan Africa, conflict in the Middle East, violence in economically depressed U.S. inner cities, poverty and alcoholism in Native-American communities or, currently, victims of the earthquake in Haiti, the [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on March 23rd, 2010
(3rd Place, Feature Audio Slideshow, Best of Photojournalism 2010)
Congratulations to all the other winners.
This video was produced in collaboration with MSF as part of their amazing Condition Critical project. Please do visit the website and leave a comment. THANKS.
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duckrabbit posted this on March 22nd, 2010
For African Americans, Native Americans, Asian, Latino… or gays… or under 25… or female… they know that their communities have been, and continue to be, routinely left out of their newspaper. They typically make the news for holidays, crime or food.
For many of them, newspapers aren’t dying… they’re already dead.
At SXSWi, attendees of the Online News [...]
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