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Tessa Bunney – Beyond Home Work

duckrabbit posted this on August 5th, 2011

Its no secret I’m a massive fan of Tessa Bunney’s photography. Her book Home Work, sits on my desk, quietly inspiring the space. Sooner or later I’ll get round to writing a proper post about it.

We were lucky that Tessa signed up to The Hinterlands multimedia workshop we ran earlier this year, and one [...]

Male rape – Guardian photofilm

Ciara Leeming 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 think [...]

Pitch perfect storytelling

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, and [...]

Ever thought about killing the person who leaves dirty cups in the sink?

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 they [...]

‘You are thirst – and thirst is all I know’ (inspired and inspiring photofilm)

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 too [...]

Beautiful, eloquent, thought provoking. Damn thing made me cry.

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 classic [...]

WOW WOW WOW. The most beautiful timelapse photofilm I have ever seen.

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.

“I have four babies, beautiful, gorgeous, why should I ever think about suicide? I had these thoughts in my mind. I was messed up.”

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 [...]

“It was afterwards that we heard the whispers about the oil and that’s when I thought, fuckinghell I might be on the wrong side”

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 [...]

Hidden History: The Irish At War, Damian Drohan

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 [...]

“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, [...]

BACK THIS – Gilden on Kickstarter

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 [...]

‘Intensely intimate radio- unlike anything I’ve heard for a long time’

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 [...]

‘Finally! … Our Truth’

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 [...]

Open Eye – THE OTHER (side of Sweden) – photofilm

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 [...]

When is a photograph a lie?

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’ [...]

Photofilm -1 in 13 million – The only native Japanese Imam in Tokyo – MAGIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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 [...]

How we treat others less fortunate then ourselves

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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The film that would win the World Press Multimedia Award (if there was a public vote)

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 [...]

A photofilm that lets you think for yourself

duckrabbit posted this on January 4th, 2011

There are so many different ways to read this photofilm, so many layers, so many unanswered questions … which is what makes it so great.

Hats off to Ian Forsyth.

Mr Geebers The Pebbleman from Ian Forsyth on Vimeo.

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