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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 to [...]
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 who [...]
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 [...]
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 most [...]
duckrabbit posted this on March 22nd, 2011 Goddamn this is a project and a half barrel of whisky.
Immense.
Damian Drohan is one of the most committed students duckrabbit has had the pleasure to train. It gives me great honor to introduce you to his monumental project about the unknown, unrecognized Irish veterans of World War 2 (be sure to check out [...]
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, [...]
duckrabbit posted this on February 27th, 2011 During the judging of the recent World Press Awards one thing you can trust is that, on the whole, the judges will pick great pictures. With a hundred thousand or so to chomp through they’d have to be visually illiterate to do anything else. But can you trust that the work they pick has [...]
duckrabbit posted this on February 25th, 2011 Bruce Gilden’s foreclosure work is essential. I first wrote about it in April 2009 saying,
‘This Magnum in Motion audio slideshow is straight out of the bible. It speaks with the zeal of a prophet.
It’s raw.
Damn Bruce Gilden there is electricity and power in your photographs. Nothing has come close to capturing the [...]
duckrabbit posted this on February 19th, 2011 There’s no question that Maggie Steber is a top, top photographer. She’s hugely respected for all the right reasons and her voice carries weight. Tonight she’s written that duckrabbit’s (Benjamin Chesterton’s) questions regarding Jodi Bieber’s World Press winning photograph are ‘hysterical’ and amount to a ‘witchunt’. That’s quite a dressing down that deserves some thinking [...]
duckrabbit posted this on February 8th, 2011 I’ve just been sent the link to a terrific short review of one of duckrabbit’s radio documentary’s that was recently on the BBC World Service.
This is intensely intimate radio- unlike anything I’ve heard for a long time. Dalia Khamissy, a Lebanese photojournalist, returns to Beirut to try to [...]
duckrabbit posted this on February 3rd, 2011 If you are a photographer interested in working in the NGO/Humanitarian sector this will interest you.
Next week I am training the communications staff working out of MSF Brussels and quite a few of their overseas staff. MSF have an amazing track record of working with photographers and in Bruno, Julie and Olga they run [...]
duckrabbit posted this on February 2nd, 2011 Got a cool email this morning. Samira Hack, who was a prominent voice in the Open Eye documentary and photofilm I made with Joseph Rodriguez got in contact with Joseph with these words:
‘All that I can say is, Finally! I am very pleased with the results that [...]
David White posted this on February 1st, 2011 Like many, I have been glued to my computer watching the epic events in Egypt unfold. Images coming in from all over, different views every day, a plethora of images.
Visually I have a great handle on things thanks to the amazing power of the tintertwizzle.
I noticed Time shouting that they had an exclusive [...]
duckrabbit posted this on February 1st, 2011 ‘When people see me they see a criminal Arab guy, that’s the first thing they get in their head. I wake up every day after two o’clock. Go out at three. Three hours later the sun is down. It’s a disgusting feeling. I don’t do anything, I don’t make my parents proud … I [...]
duckrabbit posted this on February 1st, 2011 It’s hard to argue with a photographer when they point to a photo of their own that they once loved but now think is a ‘lie’.
Simon Sticker has done just that in an interesting post about a photo he took in Rwanda.
In photography he says, referring to his own pictures, a ‘lie’ [...]
duckrabbit posted this on January 28th, 2011 Population of Japan – 127,000,000 Population of Tokyo – 13,000,000 No. of Muslims in Japan (estimate) – 100,000 No. of Japanese Muslims (estimate) – 10,000 No. who converted to Islam NOT for marriage(estimate) – 2 or 300 No. of Japanese Imam’s in Japan – 5 No. of Japanese Imam’s in Tokyo – 1 Abdullah [...]
duckrabbit posted this on January 27th, 2011 is a mark of how we should be judged as individuals and as society. Also as a company.
Thank god for the great people at Bombay Flying Club, for caring so much they put their hands in their own pocket to tell this important story of how some refugees are treated in Denmark.
Sobering.
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David White posted this on January 19th, 2011 (PLEASE SHARE THIS IMPORTANT STORY)
If you didn’t get to listen to the fascinating and harrowing piece on the BBC World Service this morning about the photographer Dalia Khamissy‘s attempts to document what happened to the thousands who were kidnapped and disappeared during the Lebanese civil war, then you can listen again here. You can [...]
duckrabbit posted this on January 18th, 2011 Obviously the top people at The World Press know a thing or two about how to run a competition. For their latest award, they’ve decided that the FIFA World Cup football selection model is the way to go. Well, not quite …
According to someone commenting on the duckrabbit the nominators of this years multimedia [...]
duckrabbit posted this on January 7th, 2011 Really lovely and inspiring video about Alex Soth.
So interesting to compare this with the video of Plankton I put up earlier in the week.
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