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November 29th, 2009
Ok, so anybody reading any of the blogs with which duckrabbit feels an affinity will know that Pete Brook, of prison photography fame, got fed up with all the daft debate surrounding photography and diversity and has decided to do something about it. So he wrote to a tonne of us bloggers asking if we’d [...]
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November 5th, 2009
‘Taking it’s name from a darkroom/photo processing technique, the Dodge & Burn Blog is dedicated to DIVERSITY in PHOTOGRAPHY. My posts reflect PHOTOGRAPHY HISTORY as I would have loved to have learned it and CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY as I see and value it.
Dodge & Burn photography blog will highlight what is often “dodged” from the art [...]
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October 28th, 2009
I was recently was given a much coveted copy of Joseph Rodriguez’s East Side Stories. It’s lush. It just re-confirms for me that the best place to see photography is in a book.
Galleries are good, but they often carry an elitist edge and rednecks like duckrabbit can feel a bit out of place.
The computer [...]
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October 15th, 2009
I read a comment on Lightstalkers by a photojournalist who said that growing up in London twenty years ago he wasn’t aware of any racism. It’s typical of a revisionist version of the world that has been prevalent in the comments sections of many photography blogs the past couple of months since Stan Banos sparked [...]
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October 13th, 2009
Either Stan has finally challenged Joerg of Concientious to a game of Twister , or someone, somewhere is kicking off.
In this case its a typhoon of a post by Sebastien Boncy that can be found on Amy Steins blog.
When Sebastien pretty much opens with these words you know punches won’t be pulled:
‘Let’s take it for [...]
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September 29th, 2009
Some time ago duckrabbit ran a silly competition offering $1000 to anyone who could successfully justify to Stan Banos why PDN set up a 22 strong all white photography judging panel.
The competition, and surrounding debate resulted in PDN putting out an apology of sorts. Today I received this comment from the US lawyer Steven Reyes:
‘I [...]
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September 8th, 2009
MISS HIV STIGMA FREE 2007 BOTSWANA..TSHEBETSO THOBOLO comes on stage at the MISS HIV pageant to great applause. (c) David White
Stories about HIV and AIDS in Africa are often presented as either one of polar opposites. There are the news outlets who tend to publish negative stories, sometimes with a picture of a [...]
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July 28th, 2009
Recently I wrote a post on RESOLVE about the art of the soliloquy in multimedia. The ‘to be or not to be’ moment, when a character in a play steps out of the action and shares their soul with the audience.
Shakespeare had it cracked.
We want to know what’s going on beneath the skin. We want [...]
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June 19th, 2009
The BBC is running both an inspiring and thoughtful audio slideshow.
Audio slideshow: Faces of the favelas
The French artist JR first made his mark in Rio de Janeiro last year, as giant posters of staring eyes started appearing on buildings in the city’s oldest favela.
He was drawn there following the controversial deaths of three young men, [...]
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June 10th, 2009
Long term readers of duckrabbit will know we’re a big fan of Bruce Gilden. Love him or hate him, he gets in peoples faces and never fails to elicit a response.
Given some recent posts, and responses on duckrabbit, I guess its kind of apt that Slate are running a series of his photos about the [...]
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June 10th, 2009
There’s a quiet and thoughtful audio slideshow running on the BBC about the harsh reality of life for many of Zimabawe’s children. Take a moment out of your day to watch it and to reflect how ‘man hands on misery to man.’
The suffering in this world is only matched by the mass indifference towards it.
Honestly, [...]
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June 8th, 2009
In the past I called Mark Page a ‘Gobshite’. He may be that and his blog might make me laugh out loud more than any other on the web, but his words also hold the conscience of this nation to account.
Today is a shameful day for Britain, a day in which we elected a racist [...]
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