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.
A look into how the World Fish Centre’s research programme on Aquatic Agricultural Systems is changing lives for the better in Bangladesh.
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 [...]
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.
Robin Meldrum, a former duckrabbit trainee and MSF communications officer has a photofilm about the crisis in South Sudan published on the Guardian.
We’ve set two new dates for our three-day multimedia storytelling workshop:
1. June 19th – 21st (Birmingham)
2. July 11th – 13th (Central London)
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.
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.
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’.
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.
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 [...]
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)
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)
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.
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.
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.
duckrabbit’s work with MSF on the Condition Critical project is featured on the BEST OF THE WEB page in the Los Angeles Times
All of our summer courses have sold out, so we’ve added two additional courses…
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…