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 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 15th, 2011
This is an astonishing photofilm about how one small fishing community has been affected by the BP Oil disaster. What the photofilm lacks in context about the disaster it makes up for in emotional punch and as good a set of documentary photography as you are likely to see.
I take my hat off [...]
duckrabbit posted this on January 25th, 2011
They hate him but we love him, Who ‘they’ are, we are not exactly sure, but Jonathan Worth would be a hero of the photography world if there was any justice. Not that he would care anyway.
Jonathan pisses a few people people off (but makes many more happy) by giving things away for [...]
duckrabbit posted this on October 19th, 2010
On paper Pete Masters is the web editor of MSF UK, and although he is a bit of a geek, Pete is so much more … he’s duckrabbit’s best ever student.
Now whilst MSF go into really troubled places and save lives (and a lot more), Pete isn’t all humanitarian, because secretly on [...]
duckrabbit posted this on October 10th, 2010
duckrabbit is writing this from De Prague, a rather wonderful bar/restaurant in Beirut. Forget that though. I’ve just had the pleasure of sitting through an edit of Ivor Prickett’s work on Gali: Abkhazia’s frontier with Georgia.
Some of you may have seen Ivor’s work featured in last month’s BJP.
If I come across [...]
duckrabbit posted this on June 15th, 2010
Pacific Star II from Colin Rich on Vimeo.
This is the second trip of my home made high altitude weather balloon photography project, Pacific Star.
The balloon was launched at 5:37pm (PST) from Oxnard, CA and reached an altitude of 125,000 feet snapping photos and recording video along the way.
The balloon [...]
duckrabbit posted this on May 9th, 2010
When one of my students on the Photojournalism Masters at LCC asked me if he could send me his first multimedia feature I said sure. A decision I started to regret that when he told me that it was a ten minute feature on ‘Japanese Ferries’. It sounded like an exercise in self-indulgence.
True [...]
duckrabbit posted this on May 3rd, 2010
I popped up some interesting words by Stuart on the blog last night, but if you want a masterclass on how a photographer can cover gritty stories, without reducing the people in the photos to freaks for pity and pennies, then spend some time on Stuart’s website.
It’s a masterclass in thought provoking [...]
duckrabbit posted this on March 8th, 2010
“Between 1994 and 2001, the endowment of Harvard University tripled, making the school the wealthiest non-profit in the world, second only to the Vatican. In the same years, Harvard heavily outsourced many service jobs to lower-paying companies, thus resulting in average wage cuts of 30% for the schools’ custodians, food-workers and security guards. [...]
Tiana posted this on February 4th, 2010
Some photography creates distances, puts the people in the pics out on some distant horizon you’ll never reach, nor would you want to. Other photography closes the gap, creates understanding and feels like a genuine conversation. Mostly, but not exclusively, that’s the photography I love and that’s the photography Tiana Markova-Gold creates.
I first [...]
duckrabbit posted this on January 5th, 2010
Photo: the last night of the noughties on the hill of Masailand in Kenya- Yasuyoshi Chiba on duckrabbit [...]
duckrabbit posted this on November 29th, 2009
If you are one of the few who haven’t already taken time to read David Campbell’s post on photojournalism’s future duckrabbit highly recommends you do. Much of what he is saying is both simple and obvious, it’s just some photographers are still aching for a long lost dream whilst fading painfully into history. [...]
duckrabbit posted this on November 3rd, 2009
It sucks that the first time you often find out about photographic talent is when they’ve gone. It’s great that their work lives on. Great art will be discovered and re-discovered, buried and uncovered, defaced, replaced, exhumed, resuscitated, reappraised and at some point gradually returned to dust. You can’t own it, there are no [...]
duckrabbit posted this on October 28th, 2009
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.
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duckrabbit posted this on September 15th, 2009
Bang. Bang. Bang. WOW.
This blew me away.
I mean this REALLY BLEW ME AWAY.
For more info look here and here.
If you only look at one thing on the web this week go here.
If you are a blogger please spread the word on this amazing work.
Paul Close, duckrabbit salutes you!
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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 [...]
duckrabbit posted this on July 30th, 2009
This week on duckrabbit we’re celebrating the work of the American photographer Joseph Rodriguez.
For today’s installment we’re sending you over to RESOLVE where Miki Johnson (who introduced duckrabbit to Rodriguez) is running a fascinating interview with Joseph. It focuses on his work making multimedia with people coming out of the criminal justice system [...]
duckrabbit posted this on July 28th, 2009
Your first lesson in photography
Last night night there was a 3 a.m. banging on duckrabbit’s window. Joseph Rodriguez’s crazy face pushed up against the glass scaring the shit out of me.
“Benjamin”, he said, “get your lazy arse out of bed. You’re coming out for your first lesson in photography.”
Joseph drove me [...]
duckrabbit posted this on July 28th, 2009
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 [...]
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 [...]
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