PRAYING FOR THE RAIN – audio slideshow
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PRAYING FOR THE RAIN
is duckrabbit’s award winning portrait of one of the many camps
housing Kenyans displaced by 2008′s post election violence
Mar 30, 2009 | Categories: DUCKRABBIT SHOWCASE, HUMANITARIANISM, KENYA BURNS | Tags: audio slideshow, Benjamin Chesterton, conflick, Dolphine Emali, duckrabbit, KENYA BURNS, Nakuru, violence, Yasuyoshi Chiba | 1 Comment »
TOGETHER
In early 2008 Benjamin spent three months in Kenya working for the American NGO INTERNEWS.
During that time he worked with a number of incredible local and international journalists creating multimedia that explored the post election violence and its fall out.
These audio slideshows were mainly used for training purposes in Kenya and indeed the slideshows from the camp at Nakuru were actually made as part of a training exercise.
It’s a great example of duckrabbit’s belief that quality training can empower talented people to make effective work.
The slideshows had a demonstrative impact when showed to journalists in Kenya, forcing them to confront the seriousness of the situation faced by many of those violently displaced from their homes. Journalists often reacted by admitting that they felt they had failed to adequately cover the crisis, then pledging to do more to highlight the problems faced by those living in the camps. The majority kept their word.
This slideshow tells the story of Kibera, one of the biggest slums in Africa and scene of some of the most devastating post election violence. The piece is centered around the work of Yasuyoshi Chiba. an amazing Japanese photographer who did more then anyone else during the chaos to capture what was really going on.
Since then Yasuyoshi has gone on to win many international awards including a first prize in the World Press Awards.
Together also features the photographs of duckrabbit friend Eliza Barclay. A hugely talented American journalist.
Mar 24, 2009 | Categories: DUCKRABBIT SHOWCASE, HUMANITARIANISM, KENYA BURNS, NEWS | Tags: Benjamin Chesterton, duckrabbit, Eliza Barclay, KENYA BURNS, Kibera, Together | Leave A Comment »
ENOUGH
duckrabbit believes that ENOUGH
speaks for itself
Mar 05, 2009 | Categories: DUCKRABBIT SHOWCASE, HUMANITARIANISM, KENYA BURNS | Tags: audio slideshow, Benjamin Chesterton, Dolphine Emali, duckrabbit, Yasuyoshi Chiba | Leave A Comment »
WHITE MAGIC
duckrabbit first met David White in the lobby of a hotel on the banks of the Nile in Egypt. I thought he was alright but when I saw his photos it was love at first sight. A few years previously I stumbled across a Sebastiao Salgado exhibition in Liverpool. I had no idea who the guy was but his photos changed my life. It wasn’t that they were so heart bleedingly great, it was that they smacked my conscience around the gallery, followed me home and waged war on my dreams. I was twenty three and it was the first photographic exhibition I’d ever seen. Almost everything else was a disappointment after that, even a subsequent Salgado exhibition I saw in Walsall. Then I met David in Egypt. A straight talking guy with a refreshing lack of pretentiousness who lives to shoot and shoots from the heart. Rare amongst photojournalists he doesn’t seem to be trying to save anyone, or himself, and he’s not preoccupied by misery, in-fact his images often reveal mystery and hope. Some of them are just damn funny.
This is selection of some of my favorite White images. There’s a lot of great stories behind them so if you ever meet David, say for example hanging out in the lobby of an Egyptian hotel, buy him a beer and settle yourself in for the night …
You can see a fullscreen version of this slideshow here, and you can see more of David’s work on his website.
Mar 02, 2009 | Categories: COMMISSIONS, DUCKRABBIT SHOWCASE, KENYA BURNS, WHITE LIGHT | 1 Comment »