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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

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 and diversity and has decided to do something about it.  So he wrote to a tonne of us bloggers asking if we’d [...]

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 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 [...]

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 are good, but they often carry an elitist edge and rednecks like duckrabbit can feel a bit out of place.

The computer [...]

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 that has been prevalent in the comments sections of many photography blogs the past couple of months since Stan Banos sparked [...]

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 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 [...]

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, and surrounding debate resulted in PDN putting out an apology of sorts.  Today I received this comment from the US lawyer Steven Reyes:

‘I [...]

Miss HIV, Botswana

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 [...]

Where it’s at, Joseph Rodriguez (part two)

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 [...]

BBC Audio Slideshow – Faces of favelas

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, [...]

The Resurgence of Hate Groups in the USA

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 [...]

Zimbabwe’s orhans – BBC Audio Slideshow

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, [...]

Why Manchester Photography is THE essential British Blog

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 [...]