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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
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Stephen Alvarez
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The Travel Photographer
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duckrabbit posted this on April 25th, 2011
The Democratic Republic of Congo is the most colourful place I’ve ever visited. The women even smile.
Madam Agata teaches a group of women in their last month of pregnancy to knit (c) Yasuyoshi Chiba/duckrabbit/MSF
Infact it’s the Muzungus (white people) who were the most drab, including this dodgy looking geezer:
duckrabbit posted this on June 17th, 2010
Yasuyoshi is in South Africa shooting The World Cup. He emailed me today to say that one of his photos was a two page centre spread in the Guardian. If anyone saw it, or has a copy please give me a shout. In true Chiba style he hasn’t shot anywhere near a football stadium [...]
duckrabbit posted this on March 23rd, 2010
(3rd Place, Feature Audio Slideshow, Best of Photojournalism 2010)
Congratulations to all the other winners.
This video was produced in collaboration with MSF as part of their amazing Condition Critical project. Please do visit the website and leave a comment. [...]
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 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 [...]
duckrabbit posted this on 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 [...]
duckrabbit posted this on 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 [...]
duckrabbit posted this on 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 [...]
duckrabbit posted this on 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.
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duckrabbit posted this on 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 [...]
duckrabbit posted this on 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 they [...]
duckrabbit posted this on 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 [...]
duckrabbit posted this on 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 [...]
duckrabbit posted this on 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 [...]
duckrabbit posted this on 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 [...]
duckrabbit posted this on 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 [...]
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