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 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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duckrabbit posted this on July 4th, 2010
It’s one of people’s worst fears. To either lose your mind or watch the mind of someone you love slowly disappear. Phillip Toledano explored this photographically in his thought provoking website and book Days With My Father. The work is amongst the best you’ll find on the web.
Cathy Greenblat is another photographer who has been exploring [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on June 6th, 2010
A couple of days ago David put up a post about ‘Something Beautiful’, a very personal photofilm by Ore Huiying. At the time I didn’t realize that Ore is one of the students I’ve been teaching at LCC (its a large group). I certainly know her now after she beat me up for not [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on June 4th, 2010
A few days ago I had the pleasure of watching back in class the work of some of my students on the Masters in Photojournalism at the London College of Communication. Both myself and John Easterby (who chaired the session) were blown away by the quality of some of the work by students who had never [...]
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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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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 May 14th, 2010
I was once spent a night in Blackpool when I was making a programme for the BBC about the fate of race horses when they can no longer win races. The programme was almost as depressing as Blackpool, but not quite.
I remember standing in one of the arcarde’s watching people pour their money away, seemingly in [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on May 3rd, 2010
Who managed to get one of his stories featured on the front cover of the BBC website.
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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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Ciara Leeming posted this on March 28th, 2010
Two months after the earthquake, Haitians at all levels of society are trying to get back to normal life in very difficult circumstances. An audio slideshow from the New York Times, featuring the photos of Lynsey Addario.
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Ciara Leeming posted this on March 20th, 2010
From 1957 to 1965, legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith made approximately 4,000 hours of recordings on 1,741 reel-to-reel tapes and nearly 40,000 photographs in a loft building in Manhattan’s wholesale flower district where major jazz musicians of the day gathered and played their music. The work remained archived until recently, but last year a book was [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on March 7th, 2010
There’s a bag piper who stalks the streets of Kings Heath, where duckrabbit lives. Well there was until he disapeared a few weeks ago. Turns out the local mafia put his feet in concrete and dropped him off Spagehtti Junction during rush hour. Can’t say anyone was too outraged because when he was about the only [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on March 1st, 2010
duckrabbit are teaching a short module focusing multimedia storytelling on the Masters photojournalism degree course at LCC (starting tomorrow)
Paul Lowe, who heads up the course, is a great supporter and advocate of digital storytelling. The fact that he wants to prepare students for life after print is rare amongst university educators (nudge, nudge Newport).
Anyway I’m going to put up the links to the pieces that we’ll be discussing in lesson one here on the blog. Hopefully some of the students will leave comments as well (other readers feel free to comment).
The assessment for this unit has 2 parts
• Completion of a practical assignment of a multimedia piece of a maximum of 90
seconds duration using location recorded sound and a minimum of 12 images
• A 750-1000 word report on an aspect of the application of sound and image
Continue reading duckrabbit multimedia class at LCC
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Ciara Leeming posted this on February 26th, 2010
I have to say, I think Magnum in Motion are really on top of their game at the moment. For something like the third time in as many weeks they’ve produced a beautiful little multimedia piece, this time about 2nd tour soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Shot by Peter van Agtmael – do check it out.
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duckrabbit posted this on February 26th, 2010
This is wonderful work.
The Sandpit from Sam O’Hare on Vimeo.
A day in the life of New York City, in miniature.
Original Music: composed by Human, co-written by Rosi Golan and Alex Wong.
Please view in HD and full screen for best effect. For a description of the shoot, camera, lenses and workflow, please see here: bit.ly/aFmaPZ
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Ciara Leeming posted this on February 17th, 2010
The BBC has a great audio slideshow today featuring the voice and photos of former Grenadier guards officer Cpt Alexander Allan who spent six months in Afghanistan. It’s wonderfully human and intimate – much more so than anything I’ve seen by any embedded photographer. Five minutes well spent.
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