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Tonight I’m going to let you into one of photojournalism’s dirty little secrets

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:

 

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Yasuyoshi Chiba nails it (again)

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 preferring [...]

Mishoka's story

(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. THANKS. [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

Zimbabwe’s orhans – BBC Audio Slideshow

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 [...]

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 [...]

Nine times out of ten a picture in a paper is a quick hit,

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 [...]

Yasuyoshi Chiba wins World Press Award, Amen

(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

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INNOCENCE – Sri Lanka’s former child soldiers

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. [...]

New York Times audio slideshow – Last day in the office …

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 they’ll [...]

Congo burning … more Yasuyoshi Chiba photos

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.

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What do you see in this man’s eyes?

(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 [...]

My heart is in the Congo …

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 [...]

Yasuyoshi Chiba wins Prix Bayeux of war reporting

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 [...]

Kenyan, burnt, displaced and forgotten

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 [...]