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  Farming Waters, Changing Lives.

  A look into how the World Fish Centre’s research programme on Aquatic Agricultural Systems is changing lives for the better in Bangladesh.

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  OXFAM See for Yourself campaign launches

  Oxfam launched their ‘See for Yourself’ UK fundraising campaign this week. Duckrabbit have been working with Oxfam for the past three months to produce a series of TV adverts and photography for the campaign. This January we went to Zimbabwe to film in the Gutu region, at and around one of Oxfam’s large irrigation projects. With the duckrabbit/Oxfam team was British Oxfam supporter Jodie Sandford who had applied for the chance to see for herself what her £3 a month [...]

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  British Council South Asia – Photography for Multimedia

  Six participants from across the British Council’s South Asia offices have just completed a duckrabbit workshop, training them in photography and an introduction to multimedia storytelling.

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  duckrabbit trainee film on the Guardian

  Robin Meldrum, a former duckrabbit trainee and MSF communications officer has a photofilm about the crisis in South Sudan published on the Guardian.

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  Summer photofilm workshop announced

  We’ve set two new dates for our three-day multimedia storytelling workshop:

  1. June 19th – 21st (Birmingham)

  2. July 11th – 13th (Central London)

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  Photofilm training at the British Council in Dar es Salaam

  Duckrabbit has just returned from a great week running multimedia trainings hosted by the British Council in Tanzania. The week kicked off with a three-hour seminar on the art of multimedia storytelling. The session wrapped up with a fantastic Q&A session with the 50+ audience of people from across Tanzania’s media industry including journalists, photographers, website and blog administrators as well as others from NGO’s and various other professional fields.

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  Kony 2012 – duckrabbit speaks to Channel 4

    duckrabbit’s Production Director Benjamin Chesterton was this week interviewed for Channel 4 about the global viral success of the KONY 2012 video.  As Benjamin points out, whatever you may think about the content of the film, it’s incredibly good value-for-money in terms of the amount of publicity it’s generated for Invisible Children, the organisation that created it.  The full article is here.

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  duckrabbit at BBC Radio Fast Train

    Many thanks to Amanda Lyon and Debbie Kilbride at the BBC Academy who invited duckrabbit to speak on a panel on ‘Visualising Radio’ at this year’s BBC Radio Fast Train with Joe Harland from BBC Radio 1 and Radio 1 DJ Charlie Sloth.  A really strong audience response to our Lebanon film ‘The Missing’, and a great discussion and questions too. A podcast of the panel is available here.  Also worth checking out Charlie’s web-documentary ‘It’s Grime Up North’.

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  duckrabbit at the Zilveren Camera Awards

    It was a real pleasure for duckrabbit to be invited to give the multimedia lecture at the Dutch Zilveren Camera Awards held this January in the Photo Museum in The Hague. Many thanks to Edie Peters and Fred Van Der Ende for the invitation and for their hospitality. And congratulations to Jeroen Toirkens for winning the Canon Prize for multimedia on the night for his long-running Nomad project.  Here’s just one of the images from Jeroen’s project.

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  Fishing for stories in Bangladesh

  Wow. What a terrific training we’ve just wrapped in Bangladesh. The workshop was hosted by WorldFish, an important research and development institution who are engaged in reducing poverty and hunger by improving fisheries and aquaculture. From the projects we were privileged to witness they do life-changing work. It was also particularly satisfying for us to be training both communications professionals and scientists. The objective of the training was to understand the process of producing photofilms. And although our training is [...]

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  New 2012 workshop dates announced

  Our training has already kicked off for 2012, with duckrabbit out in Bangladesh at the moment delivering a training to participants from The WorldFish Center. And there’s lots more in store including two new dates announced for our three-day multimedia storytelling workshops:

  1. March 28th – 30th (Birmingham)
  2. April 11th – 13th (Central London)

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  New dates announced for duckrabbit three-day photofilm workshops

  Due to demand duckrabbit are pleased to announce an extra two multimedia workshops for 2011:

  1. December 30th November – 2nd December (Central London)
  2. December 7-9th (Birmingham)

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  Flowers East a Fiver! duckrabbit student Dougie Wallace on the streets..look out!

  Spend three minutes watching this piece by Dougie Wallace. It’s worth it. Dougie came on our Hinterlands workshop and is someone to watch. His pics are very strong, his approach quite unique, and this piece shows how he is not afraid to get in as close with his microphone as he does with his lens.

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  duckrabbit trainees have film featured by ILRI

  ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute) have featured a film made by their own staff during a duckrabbit training workshop in Nairobi.  Good work by duckrabbit trainees Muthoni Njiru, Julius Nyangaga and Tezira Lore with additional photos by duckrabbit photographer David White.  ILRI Press release here.  

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  duckrabbit trainee has a photofilm featured in the Observer

  Emma Wigley from Christian Aid, conducted and recorded the interview in this photofilm highlighting the issue of male survivors of rape in Uganda and Congo.

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  duckrabbit featured in Los Angeles Times

  duckrabbit’s work with MSF on the Condition Critical project is featured on the BEST OF THE WEB page in the Los Angeles Times

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  Only a few places left on three-day photofilm workshops

  All of our summer courses have sold out, so we’ve added two additional courses…

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  duckrabbit trainee has a photofilm featured on TIME

  Duckrabbit multimedia training is all about giving you the tools to go out after and create great work on your own. Neil Palmer from CIAT (International Center for Tropical Agriculture) did just that, after our three day training. His photofilm, highlighting the reality of the effect of two degrees of global warming on agriculture, has been featured on TIME…

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