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January 5th, 2010
Photo: the last night of the noughties on the hill of Masailand in Kenya- Yasuyoshi Chiba on [...]
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December 14th, 2009
(click on photo, the video player will load, then click again to play)
It’s one of those moments you don’t forget.
This term I’ve been a guest lecturer at Birmingham City University. I sat twenty students down in front of one of the four videos we’ve been producing for MSF (more of that in a [...]
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June 10th, 2009
There’s a quiet and thoughtful audio slideshow running on the BBC about the harsh reality of life for many of Zimabawe’s children. Take a moment out of your day to watch it and to reflect how ‘man hands on misery to man.’
The suffering in this world is only matched by the mass indifference towards it.
Honestly, [...]
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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 [...]
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February 21st, 2009
bang it tells its story and then its gone again.
The problem is so many thoughtful photos get left behind.
It’s frightening how little we see of the pictures that really matter.
I only became aware of this when looking through Yasuyoshi Chiba’s photos of the Kenyan conflict.¬† If you were just to see the pictures the editors [...]
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February 20th, 2009
(C) Yasuyoshi Chiba
Every now and again something happens that makes you feel good about the world. This email to duckrabbit was one of those times:
From: chiba.yasuyoshi@gmail.com
Subject: from Chiba
Date: 13 February 2009 13:46:13 GMT
To: benjamin@duckrabbit.info
Hi Benjamin,
One of my photo got a prize in the world press photo.
http://www.worldpressphoto.org/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=view&id=1429&type=byname&Itemid=224&bandwidth=high
When you mentioned about my photos and this contests, [...]
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February 13th, 2009
This comes straight from duckrabbit’s heart, where else?
The Sri Lankan civil war has long been notorious for the LTTE’s recruitment of child soldiers. As the violence intensifies UNICEF is reporting that forcible recruitment of children is on the the increase despite assurances by the LTTE that they would no longer force children to fight. David [...]
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January 31st, 2009
duckrabbit thinks that The New York Times have established themselves as the most consistently interesting publisher of multimedia on the web. Their online tagline is ‘Breaking News, World News and Multimedia’. It’s clear that they aim to be a global brand, though with the way their revenue is heading the most likely brand [...]
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November 9th, 2008
Its such a cliche but the Washington Post’s latest set of photos from Congo tells more of a story then all the words written about the conflict. Perhaps this is because the photographer often gets closer to the truth then a print journalist ever can, closer to the moment, reveals a greater sense of place.
The [...]
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November 5th, 2008
In his interesting Blog: (notes on) politics, theory and photography, Jim Johnson writes about the photo of Yasuyoshi Chiba I posted yesterday:
(c) Yasuyoshi Chiba, AFP
‘While we are voting, there is mayhem elsewhere. This is one of image in a large set depicting the especially dire circumstances in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [...]
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November 4th, 2008
Boston.com has an overpowering page of images (31) covering the current humanitarian crisis in the Congo.¬† Some of the photos are taken by my fearless friend Yasuyoshi Chiba.¬† A lot of Africans think Yasuyoshi is a marshal arts expert, so despite the fact that he’s quite a small chap he never seems to get any [...]
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October 26th, 2008
It was by chance that I came across the photography of Yasuyoshi Chiba in Kenya earlier this year and its great to see that I’m not the only one to recognize the importance of his work capturing the post election violence.
Earlier this year Yasuyoshi was one of four photographers nominated for the prestigious Visa d’Or, [...]
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September 5th, 2008
This is the article of mine the New Statesman published last week about the reality faced by the hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the post election violence in Kenya.
The audio slideshows here on duckrabbit are more recent versions than those published on the NewStatesman website. You can watch them here and don’t forget [...]
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