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'One of the hazards of publishing a well-known photojournalism blog - getting multimedia like yours, where the photos are both powerful and moving, and I end up in tears at my desk.'

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

'If you haven't seen the duckrabbit blog on multimedia you should.'

Stephen Alvarez

'duckrabbit has done another jaw-dropping job with Condition Critical, a highly commendable and important project for Medecins Sans Frontiers.'

The Travel Photographer

a tour of duty – BBC audio slideshow

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.

Uzbekistan...they all live in pots you know..

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 [...]

Salão Escola de Beleza Afro - Tiana Markova Gold (where it's at)

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 [...]

Picturing the homeless - Don McCullin

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 [...]

Expanding the circle

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.

CIARA LEEMING

Drawing the dead

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 [...]

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 aware of his work than I would say it is characterized by being both hard won and sublime:

(c) Stephen Alvarez

Climate change Bangladesh

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 [...]

'Kenya hasn't seen a drop of rain for several years.'

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 [...]

Angry people in local newspapers…….

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.

Does photojournalism undermine human rights?

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 [...]

Black Boys On Mopeds

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 [...]

There is so much good stuff on John Edwin Mason’s blog right now

Much better than anything you’ll find here.

Take an hour and start reading back. It made my night.

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I so wanted to back a UK photographer

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 [...]

duckrabbit recommends

duckrabbit just came across the excellent blog SLIGHTLY LUCID.  Highly recommended.