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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Mike Lusmore posted this on January 11th, 2012
It’s been a a bit of a trek getting out to Bangladesh where I am working with Benjamin for a few weeks and if I thought the trekking was over I was wrong. The transport here in Khulna is slow progress and the roads would keep the highways agency back in the UK [...]
duckrabbit posted this on December 4th, 2011
During the photofilm training we’ve just wrapped in London we spent a lot of time talking about how you get a great interview. There’s no magic. Its just about you and the person, having a bit of time, having a connection and most of all trust.
For me the best interviews are when [...]
duckrabbit posted this on May 23rd, 2011
No, really. You are missing out on one of the most beautiful, creative and inspiring workshops I’ve ever known.
OK, I have a vested interest, but I don’t do bullshit. The Hinterlands Workshop is exceeding our wildest expectations.
We are blessed to be able to spend time teaching and learning from some fascinating [...]
duckrabbit posted this on May 11th, 2011
The bad news: all our three day workshops have sold out. More later in the year so get in contact if you want to go on the list.
The good news: we still have a few slots left on The Hinterlands workshop which starts in ten days time and is going to be a [...]
duckrabbit posted this on April 21st, 2011
In our recent trip to the DR Congo the great photographer Yasuyoshi Chiba told me why his pictures often carry so much hope (something he has in common with David).
Whilst his father was dieing his mother never gave up hope.
From that simple, but profound experience, he learned that in almost any circumstances [...]
duckrabbit posted this on April 20th, 2011
Every now and again duckrabbit has the pleasure of training someone who understands that to nail a great photofilm has as much to with sweat as it does talent. David Mansell-Moullin has worked his photofilm ‘To The Desert’, close to perfection.
Short, poetic and speaking to my heart. I hope it speaks to yours [...]
duckrabbit posted this on April 13th, 2011
This short film could be brilliant but for me its a great illustration of how to nearly nail an interview.
The next time someone tells you:
“I feel happy to not have to have something more to fill the void, cause the void is filled with love”
STOP THEM AND ASK THEM WHAT THEY [...]
duckrabbit posted this on April 7th, 2011
Its very hard to keep an audience glued to your photofilm unless you offer them a gripping opening 30 seconds and openings don’t get stronger then in Florence Royer’s photofilm about one soldier’s attempts to come to terms with life after combat in Iraq.
Florence was one of the students at LCC last year [...]
duckrabbit posted this on March 22nd, 2011
There are only two spaces left on our hotly anticipated Montreal workshop that is being organized by Daniel Seguin.
Closer to home the photofilm workshop that we’re really salivating over is The Hinterlands (spaces still available). If you want to start making films then we promise an inspiring space to sharpen your skills.
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duckrabbit posted this on March 22nd, 2011
Goddamn this is a project and a half barrel of whisky.
Immense.
Damian Drohan is one of the most committed students duckrabbit has had the pleasure to train. It gives me great honor to introduce you to his monumental project about the unknown, unrecognized Irish veterans of World War 2 (be sure to [...]
duckrabbit posted this on February 11th, 2011
Ken from MSF (Doctors without borders) has the answer …
And if you’re thinking about getting yourself some ‘awesome’ training’, just do it.
duckrabbit posted this on February 8th, 2011
I’ve just been sent the link to a terrific short review of one of duckrabbit’s radio documentary’s that was recently on the BBC World Service.
This is intensely intimate radio- unlike anything I’ve heard for a long time. Dalia Khamissy, a Lebanese photojournalist, returns to Beirut to try [...]
duckrabbit posted this on February 3rd, 2011
If you are a photographer interested in working in the NGO/Humanitarian sector this will interest you.
Next week I am training the communications staff working out of MSF Brussels and quite a few of their overseas staff. MSF have an amazing track record of working with photographers and in Bruno, Julie and Olga they [...]
duckrabbit posted this on November 11th, 2010
Good to see another one of duckrabbit’s students getting their work shown on the BBC.
Damian Drohan is one of the most committed photographers I’ve had the pleasure of working with. I’ve been in awe of the way he has been seeking out Irish World War Two veterans to both photograph and record their [...]
duckrabbit posted this on November 2nd, 2010
In many ways sound is the ultimate visual medium. When we listen to something, or someone, we create images in our mind.
One of the clichés of photography, particularly humanitarian photography, is that it gives people a voice. Watch the video on the front page of the VISA website to see exactly what I [...]
duckrabbit posted this on November 1st, 2010
Last month duckrabbit had over 44000 visits.
To top it off I got this email this morning from Kelvin Brown, one of the photographers who recently attended a duckrabbit photofilm workshop.
‘My photo film about Cross Bones has been published on the BBC website. Thanks a stack for your advice on how to improve. [...]
duckrabbit posted this on October 26th, 2010
Contrary to IAMNOTASUPERSTAR’s last post, not every NGO wants photographers to paint the world their way.
Over the last year duckrabbit has been training some of the communications teams from MSF to produce photofilms. Not because they want another tool to manipulate you into giving them cash, but because they genuinely want to give [...]
duckrabbit posted this on October 18th, 2010
duckrabbit finished teaching my last photofilm workshop of the Summer yesterday (yes I know its Autumn but we added an extra workshop to meet demand).
The three day training was centered around the kids that hang out at Creation Skate Park. It was a cracker.
Thanks to Rebecca Harley, Martin Ellis and Stuart Freedman for bring [...]
duckrabbit posted this on September 30th, 2010
Making the transition from still photography to videography is bloody hard. There are no short cuts. But rarely has someone made the transition so convincingly as Chinese based photographer Sean Gallagher. Armed with a grant from the Pulitzer Centre he’s been investigating the plight of the Chinese alligator.
Watch his short film and then read Sean [...]
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 [...]
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