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A Summer of Photofilm Workshops ends

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 [...]

Photog Bites Off Video (and chews)

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 [...]

duckrabbit night out

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 [...]

Getting close to your subject?

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 [...]

Alzheimer’s, in fresh light

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 [...]

Joerg on ‘THE ARTISTS STATEMENT’

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 [...]

The best deal on a multimedia workshop ever?

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 [...]

The truth isn't out there

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 [...]

duckrabbit multimedia class at LCC

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).

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Facing reality

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 [...]

MOVING ON – by Ciara Leeming

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 [...]

Zen and the art of Sandcastles

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, [...]

duckrabbit reader task – edit FOTO8 slideshow

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 [...]

Multimedia -Sexual Warfare, Rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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 [...]

duckrabbit V Weston super Mare

That’s where we’re heading for next months duckrabbit multimedia training.

If you want to spend a day with landscape photographer Art Wolfe

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 [...]

Have you heard the light? (part 2)

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 [...]

Have you heard the light?

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 [...]

Voice-over or subtitle?

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 [...]

The voice is nothing but beaten air

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 [...]