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 15th, 2010
The first of our Summer photofilm workshops is starting tomorrow. The four photographers who are coming have got lucky because the Birmingham Jazz Festival kicks off tomorrow as well and that’s exactly what we will be covering.
I lost a lot of my youth to a Blues venue in Nottingham called The Running Horse where I started [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on July 9th, 2010
Bad interviews are no different to bad portraits. If the audio is not good enough, then you’re not close enough.
But if you don’t have a critical ear for audio how can you tell?
Simple. If the audio of the person featured in your photofilm sounds like they are being interviewed, when its supposed to sound intimate, then [...]
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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 28th, 2010
Good advice going on at Conscientious Extended. Well worth a read.
First of all, why even write an artist/project statement? Well, you write a statement because that’s part of the game. That’s a pretty lousy answer, and there is more to statements than just that. But you need to realize that a) you should have a statement [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on June 22nd, 2010
Well we thought Photography Still Moving was a good deal at £45 and so did everyone else cause we had a full house on Saturday, but 12 lucky people can get a week’s workshop with Anna Stevens (PANOS PICTURES multimedia Editor) for 50 Euros! Not only that but the workshop is taking place at the fotopub [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on May 17th, 2010
Look at the first photo. What do you see?
(C) Benjamin Chesterton
How does your reading of the first photo change when you see the second?
(c) Benjamin Chesterton
The two photos are taken at the same place and within seconds of each other and yet the meaning of the first photograph is 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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Antonio posted this on August 24th, 2009
The American dream seems to belong to movies, novels and political speeches. For some immigrants in North Carolina, the story is a very different one, closer to a nightmare than to anything else.
Eileen Mignoni depicts in Facing Deportation the impact of North Carolina’s immigration policies on the families of those who are [...]
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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 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 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 June 23rd, 2009
That’s where we’re heading for next months duckrabbit multimedia training.
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duckrabbit posted this on June 9th, 2009
you need to dip your hand in your pocket for $175. Only thing is you’ll be joined by 179 others. I’m sure the day has some serious overheads but as a money spinner it generates over $31000.
WOW, that’s a business model and a half. You don’t get that many people coming unless you’re bloody good at [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on June 1st, 2009
Freelance journalist Ciara Leeming has. She’s signed up to duckrabbit’s multimedia training at the Trinity Centre in Bristol next month.
Ciara is a freelance journalist working out of Manchester with a reputation for hard hitting journalism. You might wonder why a print journalist wants to go on a multimedia journalism course? The clue is in the word [...]
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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 22nd, 2009
Last week I gave a presentation of duckrabbit’s work at DFID Pakistan. One of the questions that came up was whether you should use voice-overs or subtitles when someone foreign is speaking in their mother tongue?
Nine times out of ten its a no brainer. The voice is so important.
Its not just what people say but the [...]
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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 18th, 2009
of James Nachtwey’s photos in Afghanistan, taken for the Red Cross.
Why?
Because they don’t seem to think the photos are good enough to present as stills. Instead they’ve got all those stomach churning Ken Burns effect going on. Seasick slideshows we call them at duckrabbit.
The point about a still photo is that your eye explores it. When [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on May 14th, 2009
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