Congo through rose-tinted glass.

  "Bereft of a clear narrative, journalists and photographers often confine themselves to stories of suffering, anchored in bleak statistics: 400,000......

Getty Grants For A Good Laugh.

close today. Last year they awarded the major grant to Stefano De Luigi for a project title T.I.A, 'This Is Africa'. If you get to the end of this (extended) post you'll be......

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. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="Madam Agata teaches a group of women in their last month of pregnancy to......

Do unto others ….

Very roughly some 2000 years ago we nailed some bloke called Jesus to a tree. Nothing new about that. Nailing people to trees was a rather effective form of crowd control. Since then though a lot......

“We never knew”.

(click on photo, the video player will load, then click again to play) It's one of those moments you don't......

Thanks Mondo (Multimedia Muse), your words are a real encouragement.

The credit is shared with the masters we worked with at MSF. Jake, Robin, Julie, Martin, Pete, Bruno, Mitch, Pascale and many others. ...

Multimedia -Sexual Warfare, Rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

When duckrabbit lived in Ethiopia the radio programmes that I managed regularly told stories of women and children who had......

Wow – a smile is a sign of a life worth living – amen.

Its  a shame that the BBC sometimes publishes photography as an afterthought. Often it feels like photographically they are covering important and interesting subjects, half-heartedly. Today's picture story on people suffering mental health problems in......

From the ridiculous (see last post ) to the sublime.

Boston.com's 'The Big Picture' is a thing of wonder.  Alan Taylor, who edits it, has both an eye and a heart for the world. I've just stumbled across a particularly powerful gallery on the......

I am trying to break your heart (part seven).

In the past I've been mildly critical of some of Media Storm's productions, pretty much peerless in production values though they are. They always look......