Why you should give yourself a project.

One of the hardest things about working for yourself as a journalist or producer is keeping in the habit of finding, researching and producing stories. At first, you're not as exposed to them as much......

A sense of perspective...

I saw this and I thought of you......

Postcards from Blackpool (Valentina Quintano).

I was once spent a night in Blackpool when I was making a programme for the BBC about the fate of race horses when they can no longer win races. The programme was almost......

Accuracy of captions, lesson 101..

There have been a fair few examples recently of photographers not captioning their images properly. There is no excuse for this...your captions must be as accurate as you can make them. If you don't......

A moan and a groan.

At duckrabbbit we like to hear from people. It's important. But if you want us to feature something please send a short paragraph explaining the work, and a link to the work itself, not......

You think when you open a tap that squirts out 5000 barrels of oil a day.

you'd make sure you know how to turn it off again, right? Wrong. ...

David Hoffman – wankergate.

Photojournalist David Hoffman has spent the past three decades documenting police brutality and the rise of the British far right. On general election day he......

Somebody better email Ron Haviv quick.

And let him know that Canon are running an ad campaign taking the piss out of him. ...

One body, One lens, One roll, One challenge.

Great little idea this from Colin Edwards.. Basically, the deal is this. You take one camera body, one fixed lens, one roll of film, preferably mono 'cos you'll be devving it yoursen, and you......

Zen and the art of Japanese Ferries – Where it’s at.

When one of my students on the Photojournalism Masters at LCC asked me if he could send me his first multimedia feature I said sure.  A decision I started to regret that when he......

An indiscriminate act of kindness.

This one's for Valerie, whose kindness towards one very flawed half of duckrabbit never ceases to amaze. For the rest of you I introduce a good mate of mine, Foy Vance. ...

Are you in need of voice?.

'Abbie Trayler-Smith showed her work on refused asylum seekers in the UK “Still Human Still Here.” She noted that the decision to do a short film was necessary......

My virginity, $300.

This is the harrowing story of Srey Neth, a young Cambodian victim of human trafficking forced into prostitution. It's part of a larger project by the photographer Tim Matsui to document the issue.......

Open City.

Regular readers will know that Manchester photographer and blogger Mark Page is a duckrabbit hero and we're salivating at the chance to join him for a photo tour in Manchester. More details......

Photographers should get out there ‘and do some radio journalism’.

'So many photographs are illustrative. I’m looking for people who want to interpret the world, for their singular vision. Not many people have harnessed the power of the web to use pictures in......

Remembering those who fought.

Its great to see Damian Drohan, (one of duckrabbit's students at LCC) getting recognition and exposure on the BBC. This time on the photo Editor's Phil Coomes' excellent blog 'viewfinder'. Damian has shown......

Bristol photo festival – open slideshow call for entries.

An old colleague of mine from back in the day sent me a little note asking that I would highlight a great project that he's involved in. John Angerson is helping run an......

The results sometimes are.

Technology will proceed, improve and on occasion digress- as photography will continue to diversify and incorporate: retro film enthusiasts, multi media story tellers, up to the second digital journalists with their portable......