Tom White (Photography Lot) on Ciara Leeming’s Street Fighters

‘Sometimes you don’t need a 50 picture edit with video and audio with 10 people’s points of view in order to get the essence of a story across. Sometimes all it takes is one picture and a few spoken words.’

You can see what Tom’s talking about here.

Ciara is a proper journalist, it was a total honor to train her and for my money Street Fighters is the most important sustained multimedia project going on in Britain right now.

Along with the likes of Harmit Kambo and Anna Stevens,  a fresh scene of really talented producers are starting to emerge, with an authentic English voice. These are genuine storytellers who are going to get better and better.

It’s exactly what duckrabbit hoped would happen when we started this blog just over 12 months ago (feeling very much alone and wondering what I was doing leaving a decent job at the BBC!).  Last month visitors on our sites were over 24000, with a huge chunk of them from the UK. Every week we’re getting inquiries for training (apologies if we’ve been unable to accommodate you so far!). There’s a real buzz around this kind of work, but also an acknowledgment that it’s a form in its infancy in the UK.  The surface has just been scratched. There will be (fresh) blood.