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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Ciara posted this on December 1st, 2011
Ed Ou is a sickeningly young, talented and humble Canadian photojournalist who has spent much of the past five years covering stories in Somalia and, this year, the Arab Spring. He speaks with a lot of maturity about his journalism in this Canon interview – well worth a quick listen.
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Ciara posted this on November 8th, 2011
Remember Bibi Aisha, the Afghan woman whose Jodie Bieber portrait was put on the front of Time Magazine along with a controversial jingoistic strapline?
Well, the whys and wherefores about how other people’s words are used to contextualise photographers’ images will be considered at a World Press Photo discussion later this month.
Anyway, here [...]
duckrabbit posted this on July 29th, 2011
If the video running off the front page of the Visa website is anything to go by they are:
MADNESS and DESPAIR? VIOLENCE and FEAR? EXODUS or maybe just WALKING FOR THE BUS? and BLACK AND WHITE STICK BENDING
I can’t wait and I’m really pleased to see that festival Director J F [...]
Ciara posted this on July 15th, 2011
When I watch a photofilm in which the audio features the photographer talking about their images, I often switch off quite quickly. But when I heard Will Storr talk about his project on male survivors of rape in Congo and Uganda, I didn’t – in fact I was stopped in my tracks. I [...]
Ciara posted this on July 1st, 2011
There’s been a lot of coverage over recent months about the shock decision of the Arts Council not to continue revenue funding Newcastle’s renowned Side Gallery, run by Amber Collective, from March next year. An appeal process is underway but the folks who run the collective are looking for other sources of funding. [...]
duckrabbit posted this on June 7th, 2011
Lots of craft going on here, in more ways than one.
Kauri multimedia are based in Spain. There is a sweetness and light to their work. Wonderful.
Etienne Bellanger always wanted to be a luthier. At a young age he spent time in a luthier workshop, where he became instantly fascinated and hooked, [...]
duckrabbit posted this on June 6th, 2011
I love the people at Daylight Magazine. There are few group emails that I don’t treat as spam but every month the Daylight email (letting me know what’s going on in the magazine) gets a well earned click from me.
BUT …
I think we have to try and get away from photographers reading [...]
duckrabbit posted this on June 4th, 2011
It’s funny to watch how photojournalism and advertising are merging. Pushed by the likes of World Press and Visa Festival of Shanty Towns, photojournalism is more and more judged as an aesthetic pursuit, bringing it closer and closer to (high end) advertising.
The holy grail of advertising on the other hand is authenticity, [...]
duckrabbit posted this on May 17th, 2011
For me there is always a story under the story in the best photofilms. James Hooker gets this.
Earlier this year I was invited to spend a couple of days with the undergraduates on the photojournalism course at London College of Communication (alongside duckrabbit’s teaching on the Masters course there). I’m not sure if [...]
duckrabbit posted this on May 2nd, 2011
Yesterday I put up a post that in part explored how highly staged and stylized photography has come to define how we perceive women survivors of rape in The Congo. I’ve been pretty amazed that no-one wants to defend what has become the pre-eminent way of working on projects as a documentary photographer/photojournalist? Shouldn’t we just admit what [...]
duckrabbit posted this on May 1st, 2011
close today.
Last year they awarded the major grant to Stefano De Luigi for a project title T.I.A, ‘This Is Africa’. If you get to the end of this (extended) post you’ll be able to read what a group of Kenyan photographers think of the judges choice but for those who don’t stay the [...]
duckrabbit posted this on April 25th, 2011
The Democratic Republic of Congo is the most colourful place I’ve ever visited. The women even smile.
Madam Agata teaches a group of women in their last month of pregnancy to knit (c) Yasuyoshi Chiba/duckrabbit/MSF
Infact it’s the Muzungus (white people) who were the most drab, including this dodgy looking geezer:
duckrabbit posted this on April 21st, 2011
In our recent trip to the DR Congo the great photographer Yasuyoshi Chiba told me why his pictures often carry so much hope (something he has in common with David).
Whilst his father was dieing his mother never gave up hope.
From that simple, but profound experience, he learned that in almost any circumstances [...]
duckrabbit posted this on April 20th, 2011
Every now and again duckrabbit has the pleasure of training someone who understands that to nail a great photofilm has as much to with sweat as it does talent. David Mansell-Moullin has worked his photofilm ‘To The Desert’, close to perfection.
Short, poetic and speaking to my heart. I hope it speaks to yours [...]
duckrabbit posted this on April 18th, 2011
Those are just a few of the words that come to mind watching Margaret Cheatham Williams’ photofilm Goodnight Moon (first spotted on the excellent Innovative Interactivity).
There’s been a lot of debate around the use of cinematic techniques to film traumatic events. Dan Chung’s video of the aftermath of the Japanese Earthquake is a [...]
duckrabbit posted this on April 16th, 2011
WOW. No Really. WOW.
WOW.
One day someone will make a photofilm as beautiful as this and combine it with a story and blow everyone’s minds …this will blow your mind anyway and I guess the story is MOTHER NATURE.
The Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.
duckrabbit posted this on April 15th, 2011
This is an astonishing photofilm about how one small fishing community has been affected by the BP Oil disaster. What the photofilm lacks in context about the disaster it makes up for in emotional punch and as good a set of documentary photography as you are likely to see.
I take my hat off [...]
duckrabbit posted this on April 7th, 2011
Its very hard to keep an audience glued to your photofilm unless you offer them a gripping opening 30 seconds and openings don’t get stronger then in Florence Royer’s photofilm about one soldier’s attempts to come to terms with life after combat in Iraq.
Florence was one of the students at LCC last year [...]
duckrabbit posted this on April 6th, 2011
I read the fascinating article below on Reciprocity Failure sometime back and asked Stan Banos if I could re-publish on the duckrabbit. I still think this subject is practically taboo in an industry that makes such an important contribution to human rights across the globe. The problem is if you start to actually examine the subject in [...]
duckrabbit posted this on April 5th, 2011
followed by a series of even more thought provoking responses to Jake Price’s black and white pictures on show.
Here’s just a few:
I think of all the bullshit around photography the idea that somehow a photo in black and white is a deeper more truthful representation of life is amongst the [...]
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