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Sara Trula
Carl Pendle
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Mike Lusmore
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‘You are thirst – and thirst is all I know’ (inspired and inspiring photofilm)

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 too [...]

“I have four babies, beautiful, gorgeous, why should I ever think about suicide? I had these thoughts in my mind. I was messed up.”

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 to [...]

Where it’s at: Jonathan Worth

Picture 102

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 free. [...]

Pete Masters, MSF’s web editor, fires a warning shot to photographers

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 the [...]

Where It’s At – Ivor Prickett

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 photos [...]

What a total, utter, inspiration! Thank you Colin Rich (where it's at)

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 burst, [...]

Zen and the art of Japanese Ferries - Where it's at

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 to [...]

Inspiration: Stuart Freedman

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 reporting [...]

Where it's at - Gregory Halpern

“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. In [...]

Salão Escola de Beleza Afro - Tiana Markova Gold (where it's at)

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 came [...]

Photo: the last night of the noughties on the hill of Masailand (Kenya)

Photo: the last night of the noughties on the hill of Masailand in Kenya- Yasuyoshi Chiba on duckrabbit [...]

David Campbell - Photojournalism's future

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. Others [...]

Roy DeCarava

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 pockets [...]

Joseph Rodriguez - Where it's at part 5

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.

The [...]

The Snakebox Oddessy by Paul Close (where it’s at)

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!

Where it’s at – Maisie Crow

‘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 [...]

‘We’re living in the age of interruption.’ Joseph Rodriguez

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 in [...]

Where it’s at – Joseph Rodriguez (part 3)

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 around [...]

Where it’s at, Joseph Rodriguez (part two)

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 skin. [...]

Joseph Rodriguez – Where it’s at (part 1)

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 [...]