From Lesotho to Lewis: observations on Vintage Patronising Crap
From Lesotho to Lewis: observations on Vintage Patronising Crap.

When I was in my early teens, around 1976, I took a wander through a few countries in Southern Africa. "You should visit Lesotho" someone suggested. "Great countryside and the Basotho people are really colourful......

Black bodies, moral choices & the editorial process.
Black bodies, moral choices & the editorial process..

You may (or may not) have seen the images in the New York Times this week of the intercepted migrant boat off the Libyan coast. If you did, like me, you may have been......

The knots that bind us.
The knots that bind us..

Something for Easter Sunday. Religion? Hmmm. The older I've grown the more intolerant I've become of its uglier excesses. Sadly there are many. And consequently I distance myself from it. I’m Scottish, that means I have......

Kony on trial at The Frontline Club (tonight).

At the height of the madness surrounding the Kony film I fired off an email to Milicent Teasdale who organises events at London's Frontline Club suggesting a debate. And sure enough here it......

Through the eyes of children.

You can't take a photographer seriously if they dont use a big imposing DSLR, and a really big long zoom lens. Aye right. If you believe that you'll probably also believe I can sell you......

Effete and be there? Thats not enough.
Effete and be there? Thats not enough..

I was struck by a recent post by David, and his quote from Josh Metzeler about getting to the right place to take pictures:   I’d like to say one very important thing about photojournalism (that......

Why Context Matters.

Answers to the following questions will not be found here or here: Who are these villagers? What are their lives like? How do they know how to strip an elephant? What use is made of its......

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

Thanks Yasuyoshi ... stunning work as ever. ...

The Vision and the Voice.

A few days back I exchanged emails with the photographer Stephen Alvarez, who for the last fifteen years has shot for National Geographic. He suggested we take the conversation onto our blogs. If you're not......

Brand Africa – what a disaster.

duckrabbit has had a flurry of visitors following our recent post about MSF's photoblog. It seems to have touched a nerve. Unless you go and live in a part of Africa its impossible to explain......

just don’t say I didn’t black and white you ….

Yesterday on duckrabbit I alluded to the fact that I sometimes wish we saw more color photos of Africa, particularly when we see images of conflict.  Someone from Australia wrote to me saying 'who......