A Summer of Photofilm Workshops ends.

duckrabbit finished teaching my last photofilm workshop of the Summer yesterday (yes I know its Autumn but we added an extra workshop to meet demand). The three day training was centered around the kids that......

This is cool…. Two Minute Silence..

A bit of lateral thinking but hope it works. Wondering how BBC Radio 1 plays it.. Will not say anymore. This interview says it better. 2 Minute Silence ...

A Message for the Chilean Miners….

A message for the Chilean miners from the BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/clips/p00bkwpx/randoms_message_to_the_chilean_miners/ Apart from very well done to the rescue team of Chile. Amazing work and huge courage shown by all involved because when it got dark, it......

Nothing to report.

I spent the morning with a woman who has lost seven children. Two girls died when she got to Lebanon after she fled Palestine in 1948. These were her only children at that point. One girl......

Where It’s At – Ivor Prickett.

duckrabbit is writing this from De Prague, a rather wonderful bar/restaurant in Beirut. Forget that though. I've just had the pleasure of sitting through an edit of Ivor Prickett's work on Gali:......

Leica – the ultimate reportage tool for Photojournalists… or posh travel camera for the rich?.

"Leica has announced a special edition of its M9 rangefinder in a titanium finish. Designed by automobile designer Walter De'Silva, it features an attached metal finger loop covered with leather for carrying and shooting......

UNICEF says.

“In Iraq the overall number of children receiving primary education has decline between 2004-05 and 2007-08 by 88,164, with no improvement in the percentage of girls enrolled… This under representation of girls in primary school......

Semi-detached, by Mark Page.

I grew up in one. So probably did you. (click on the photo for the series) Mark Page writes my favorite British Blog:  Manchester Photography. He's the dogs bollocks. ...

Photofilm, “If he is dead, I need proof, let me bury him”.

It's an argument sometimes given by supporters of the most visually gratuitous forms of photojournalism that we need to see the full horror to understand the 'truth'. A woman's husband is taken out and shot. Are......

Social Media and Photography.

'To be a photojournalist is to be a witness.  Those who become the best of the best and pursue a life time career in photojournalism are driven by one passion that is stronger......

Creativity – note to Perpignan Trade Show followers: “11. Don’t try to stand out from the crowd; avoid crowds altogether.”.

This is another blog to inspire some creativity in Photojournalism - no right in complaining or shouting without trying to solve so... check this amazing dude out. Maybe PJ agencies should take note. Read his......

John Harrington V Daniel Morel.

It must be deeply comforting for JF Leroy that he has been joined in his attack on Daniel Morel by John Harrington (Photo Business News). John has come up with an argument that......

Breaking News: ‘Scorcese to remake Citizen Kane on a Canon 5D’.

well not quite (thanks to the A Photo Editor for pointing duckrabbit to this) ...

AFP, CNN, Getty, ABC, V Morel, why this case matters to all professional photographers or why Getty could be selling your photos without you even knowing ….

Tonight I have received a copy of the transcript of the court proceeding in the case of AFP, Getty, CNN and ABC against Daniel Morel (for the background to this case read here). You......

‘I was very concerned about the exploitation of that personal family tragedy in order to make a case for keeping American troops in Afghanistan and continuing this war, in which so many Afghans have suffered’.

Remember Aisha? The poster girl of how great our invasion of Afghanistan has been. The girl who has her ears and nose cut off by the Taliban (or not)? Immortalized on the......

Your Best Shot?.

This is a cracking, democratic idea. Upload a photo to Bite! Magazine. Go on, but make sure it's a good one. ...

If you don’t get why equality.

should be the one and only millennium development goal then watch this important and disturbing film. I apologize for the tiny size of this film which does not in any way do the work justice. For......

Don’t censor me I’m pretentious.

It seems the key to whether an image is pornographic, offensive or unethical (and therefore should be removed from a photofestival) is not the image itself, but the credibility of the artist's statement......

Submit your thoughts/ideas on the Visa pour L’Image Festival here.

If people have concrete ideas as to how to make anything at Visa or around Visa better, more engaging, more relevant, or more interesting, they should get in touch with us. Think the work......