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 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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David White, photographer posted this on February 9th, 2010
Sent to the duck by Ian Forsyth, this multimedia piece looks at the repatriation of soldiers killed on operations whilst in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the thoughts of the residents of Wootton Bassett..a town through which many bodies of these men pass. His piece is an MOD produced handout, maybe the first of its kind for [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on November 13th, 2009
Its brilliant that Oxfam have put so much effort into creating an online documentary about the effects of climate change on the people of Bangladesh.
On the upside Oxfam used a local media team who were on the scene when cyclone Aila hit. Respect. There’s also a clear way of responding by sending a message to the [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on November 8th, 2009
A Developing Story, a new website, which duckrabbit has helped get up and running, has been born:
Hopefully the title reflects our desire to create an open space on the web in which stories and images that explore the richness and complexity of an unequal world can find a home.
We will also be campaigning for the unshackling [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on August 14th, 2009
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Every now and then duckrabbit invites people to post here who have more interesting things to say about life than we do. Today its the turn of Pete Masters, MSF Uk’s web guru, a charity that provides medical support in response to humanitarian situations.
Basically they patch people up and save lives (and do a [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on August 12th, 2009
You know how it is. Friday night you’ve planned to go somewhere but everyone else pulls out. It gets to about nine o’clock and you think can I really be arsed? Nine times out of ten I’d lock myself away but a few Friday’s back I pushed myself out the door to go and have a [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on August 5th, 2009
They used to be known as “river gypsies”, and crisscrossed the country’s waterways to transport goods.
Those days are long gone, but today more and more people are again choosing to live on canal boats – only this time often for financial or environmental reasons.
I’ve developed something of a fascination for the different ways in which people [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on August 4th, 2009
‘Where it’s at‘ is where duckrabbit profiles the work that inspires us. Last week we were privileged enough to feature the work of Joseph Rodriguez (we’ll be putting up some more of his multimedia features later on this week). Today the focus is on Maisie Crow.
(C) Maisie Crow
Tonight Maisie will be officially receiving the Ian [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on July 25th, 2009
This week we’re kicking off a new series ‘ Where it’s at’. This is where the finest work we sing about on duckrabbit will go. The stuff that kicks our ass.
Where better to start then with Joseph Rodriguez?
Regular readers will know that duckrabbit couldn’t give a toss about the tedious cult of the photographer but [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on July 24th, 2009
Artdaily.org is running an interview with Jean-Francois Leroy, the heart, soul and brains of the great photojournalism festival that is Visa Pour L’Image.
It makes for fascinating but grim reading.
Basically commitment to photojournalism by the world’s media is dead. We already knew that. And as a result he’s struggling to fill the the festival this year.
‘When you [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on July 17th, 2009
Sometimes the real art is in letting go …
“It was like being a proper journalist again …. turning up in a town you’ve never been to and not being allowed to leave until you’ve got a story.“
Last Weekend duckrabbit ran its first multimedia training course at the Trinity Arts Centre, in Bristol, England.
We threw our two [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on July 17th, 2009
Yo peeps …
One of the things duckrabbit would like to think we’re good at is editing. Mind you essentially we’re crowd pleasers. As a BBC Radio producer duckrabbit learned that you could make three dimensional, intellectually stimulating programmes that were also very popular. You just had to work bloody hard at it.
To me a great photo [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on July 13th, 2009
Having just seen the winner of The Press Photographer’s Year, I completely understand now why Kenyan photographers get totally pissed off so many of the photography jobs go to visitors to their country (NGO or otherwise).
The argument being that outsiders are better equipped to deliver (yeah right).
The winners photo was taken in Kenya. The shot is [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on July 7th, 2009
When duckrabbit lived in Ethiopia the radio programmes that I managed regularly told stories of women and children who had been the victims of sexual violence. The stories were horrific. To say that that the problem is endemic is to put it mildly. Sexual violence against women and children is rampant the world over [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on July 1st, 2009
Regular duckrabbit readers will know that I’m not a big fan of black and white photography. David White, the photographer in duckrabbit, says it’s my blind slot. He’s right, but I’m learning.
I’ve just come across another learner. Benjamin Jarosch, a young New York based photographer looked me up on Skype to chew the fat [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on 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, some [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on June 6th, 2009
duckrabbit today launches an exciting new free entry photo competition with a twist. One lucky person will win a lip smackingly beautiful $1000. The task is simple … all you need to do is restore a little bit of duckrabbit’s faith in the world. Intrigued? Read on …
The roots of duckrabbit’s competition stated several weeks ago [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on May 23rd, 2009
Photographer Oliver Edwards has. He’s just signed up for duckrabbit’s first Trinity Session.
The Trinity Sessions are for photographers and journalists who want to get their head round multimedia storytelling and in particular recording audio for slideshows.
Oliver has a degree in documentary photography from Newport University. The moving photos here are from a job Oliver did for [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on May 21st, 2009
A few months ago I emailed a friend of mine who works in the Kibera slum in Nairobi suggesting they take a look at an amazing set of photos by Jehad Nga taken in the same slum.
‘My Shadow. My Opponent’ explores the lives, spaces and activities associated with boxing clubs in Kibera.
Instinctively I knew the [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on May 14th, 2009
‘Viewing Restricted: [Re]presenting Poverty is a major new exhibition which sets out to explore different notions, representations and manifestations of ‘poverty’ within a global context. ‘
That’s the kind of introduction I’d have gently persuaded the journalists I’m training in Pakistan at the moment to dump.
But if you think that was a bit over written get your [...]
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