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Adam Westbrook posted this on June 26th, 2010
As you’ve probably read over the last week, we’re big fans of photo-blogs like the New York Times’ Lens blog, which showcase some of the best photography from around the world each and every day.
Alongside Lens, there’s also the Big Picture, run by the Boston Globe. Again, it shows big images every day from somewhere on [...]
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Adam Westbrook posted this on May 2nd, 2010
Have you checked out the daily blog Someone Once Told Me?
It’s a collection of photographs where the subjects are holding up a phrase someone once told them, that has somehow affected their life. I included it in this list of collaborative photography projects, and was in it last year too (warning, rude words).
Well here is [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on April 26th, 2010
Zarina Holmes of Sojourneposse fame has posted an excellent review of Nadia Bettega’s exhibition on Changing The Face of Human Rights at Host Gallery in London.
This thought resonates,
Her message is clear. We need not look too far if we want to contribute to humanity. The opportunity to do so is right where we are [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on April 3rd, 2010
Take a look, what do you see?
Now read these two opposing points of view:
Each magnificent photo acknowledges what it took to survive. And by their very willingness to be there before the camera, it acknowledges their triumph. It is an honor to bear witness to the radiance of their spirit.
The pseudo-tragic lighting creates a false sense [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on April 2nd, 2010
Another powerful audio slideshow by the Paul Kerley of the BBC.
The husband of American photographer and writer Judith Fox – Dr Ed Ackell – was told he had Alzheimer’s Disease in 1998, three years into the couple’s marriage.
Judith took photographs to capture his gradual decline.
‘I was photographing Ted to keep him close as he was leaving [...]
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Ciara Leeming posted this on February 17th, 2010
The BBC has a great audio slideshow today featuring the voice and photos of former Grenadier guards officer Cpt Alexander Allan who spent six months in Afghanistan. It’s wonderfully human and intimate – much more so than anything I’ve seen by any embedded photographer. Five minutes well spent.
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David White, photographer posted this on February 11th, 2010
Uzbekistan have done themselves no favours on this one…they found photographer and documentary maker Umida Akhmedova guilty. Luckily for her, the judge decided that as it was the, er, 18th anniversary of Uzbeck independence, he would waive the potential three year prison sentence. Phew, what a lucky coincidence. I doubt her ‘let off’ had anything to [...]
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Tiana posted this on February 4th, 2010
Some photography creates distances, puts the people in the pics out on some distant horizon you’ll never reach, nor would you want to. Other photography closes the gap, creates understanding and feels like a genuine conversation. Mostly, but not exclusively, that’s the photography I love and that’s the photography Tiana Markova-Gold creates.
I first came across her [...]
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Ciara Leeming posted this on February 1st, 2010
Sadly people are not really interested in the photographs I take of a rather depressing side of our society – Don McCullin.
In 1989, British photojournalist Don McCullin approached the current affairs programme Newsnight with the idea of a highlighting the growing problem of London’s homeless – a short film that can now been seen on the [...]
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Ciara Leeming posted this on January 25th, 2010
Magnum’s Susan Meiselas on photography’s potential to connect and move audiences by “expanding the circle of knowledge” about human rights and social justice issues.
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Adam Westbrook posted this on January 21st, 2010
It’s not often the BBC’s small audio slideshow team really nail it on the head, but they’ve put together something special today.
Portraits of the Fallen tells the story of a Vietnam veteran who gets up at 4am every morning to draw pictures of service men and women killed in Iraq.
As well as excellent use of music [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on December 18th, 2009
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 aware of his work than I would say it is characterized by being both hard won and sublime:
(c) Stephen Alvarez
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David White, photographer posted this on November 30th, 2009
Bonjournio mon amigos,
Couple more pics for you fine folk. The first one was taken in a tiny village called Forki. I had been walking through the village to take pics of where the water had taken the land, and had found myself quickly surrounded by the local kids. After distracting the youngsters by pointing them towards [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on November 14th, 2009
If you have no knowledge about East Africa you might actually believe a statement like the one written above presumably by the photographer Stephano de Luigi on the VII website.
I’m wracking my brains to imagine how he (or someone else) could have got it so wrong, and how no-one else has spotted it? Of course it [...]
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David White, photographer posted this on November 4th, 2009
There’s lots of them….see for yourself.
I think I may have been permanently affected by the pic of Paul and Debbie with the sausage. It’s just not right.
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duckrabbit posted this on October 22nd, 2009
Next week duckrabbit will be on a panel at Amnesty International debating:
Alive or dead? The evolution of photography in the digital age.
Photojournalism has been on its knees for some time, with newspapers and magazines no longer willing or able to fund international stories that require high expenses.
This is a bad and painful thing for [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on October 15th, 2009
I read a comment on Lightstalkers by a photojournalist who said that growing up in London twenty years ago he wasn’t aware of any racism. It’s typical of a revisionist version of the world that has been prevalent in the comments sections of many photography blogs the past couple of months since Stan Banos sparked a [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on October 6th, 2009
Much better than anything you’ll find here.
Take an hour and start reading back. It made my night.
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duckrabbit posted this on October 6th, 2009
for Magnum’s expression award but Andrea Star Reese’s work blew me away. I mean the world really doesn’t need another essay about homeless people in New York, right?
Wrong.
‘The Urban Cave, is an ongoing effort to document men and women living in makeshift dwellings around New York despite the city’s efforts to empty their encampments. It is [...]
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duckrabbit posted this on October 5th, 2009
duckrabbit just came across the excellent blog SLIGHTLY LUCID. Highly recommended.
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