What groundbreaking images of ‘Africa’ can we expect this year from Visa Festival of Shanty Towns?.

If the video running off the front page of the Visa website is anything to go by they are: MADNESS and DESPAIR? ...

‘Showing Congolese as only traumatized victims (or killers) may be highly offensive … but mostly it’s untrue.’.

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......

Race and Photography – A (very) Brief Review.

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......

‘Finally! … Our Truth’.

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: ......

When is a photograph a lie?.

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......

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

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......

Open Eye, The Missing – Imm Aziz.

"If I had only known that my sons were going and that I would not see them again I would have thrown myself under the wheels of the truck that took them." Imm Aziz [caption......

The tweet said: Archive of audio & video interviews with 40 plus white photographers & one person of color.

duckrabbit followed it thinking that can't be true, right? PERSPECTIVE ON THIS (from the comment section): Iamnotasuperstarphotographer: "Good to see better gender representation......

Some days it seems that all roads lead to the New York Times Lens Blog.

That the blog is edited by a photographer both with enormous talent and integrity and whom is still very much in love with the still image is one of the key reasons (@jamesestrin). Everyday......

New York, New York.

In this city, and the nation at large, no group has suffered more in the current recession than black men. The recent spike in joblessness that has nearly one in five......

Civil Rights Battles, in black and white.

There's a wonderful gallery of images from the civil rights movement in America running on the New York Times Lens blog. Some of these images have never been seen, locked away in law archives......

‘For many, the local newspaper isn’t dying – it’s already dead’.

For African Americans, Native Americans, Asian, Latino… or gays… or under 25… or female… they know that their communities have been, and continue to be, routinely left out of their newspaper. They typically make......

Charles Moore (rip): I fight with my camera (watch this, please).

Charles Moore is the legendary Montgomery photojournalist whose coverage of the Civil Rights era produced some of the most famous shots in the world (the dogs and......

Charles Moore on the BBC.

Check it out. Important stuff. 'The photographs were never about me. They were always about the people who were laying their lives on the line for basic civil rights. I......

Race, Diversity, Photography: Online Symposium.

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......

duckrabbit recommends dodge and burn.

'Taking it’s name from a darkroom/photo processing technique, the Dodge & Burn Blog is dedicated to DIVERSITY in PHOTOGRAPHY. My posts reflect......

Joseph Rodriguez – Where it’s at part 5.

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......

Black Boys On Mopeds.

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......

An email from Stan Banos of Reciprocity Failure notoriety (see links) titled ‘uh .. oh’ can only mean one thing.

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......

INCLUSIVITY and photography – a thoughtful response.

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,......