JF Leroy, ‘I am listening’.

Some of you will have been following the debate about why JF Leroy (Director of the Visa Pour L’Image Festival) has gone to such lengths to give the Haitian photographer Daniel Morel a kicking......

Magnum… £350 + VAT… I love you Magnum so please don’t make me have to leave you like so many have done already..

I love Magnum. The brand, the archive, the images, Henri Cartier Bresson, Jonas Bendiksen, Antoine D'Agata to name but a few. Christopher Anderson's Capitolio is one of the best books I have seen in......

Really, Really, great.

online magazine, run by top, top people. ...

Where good ideas come from…..

I am going to start off by asking the question "How can 'photofilms' avoid being classified as 'cheaper films' by the film community?" I am honoured to be able to be part of this progressive......

RIP Tony Curtis.

If you haven't seen Some Like It Hot this except from one of my favorite films of all time should be all the encouragement you need. ...

Photog Bites Off Video (and chews).

Making the transition from still photography to videography is bloody hard. There are no short cuts.  But rarely has someone made the transition so convincingly as Chinese based photographer Sean Gallagher. Armed with......

The tweet said: Archive of audio & video interviews with 40 plus white photographers & one person of color.

duckrabbit followed it thinking that can't be true, right? PERSPECTIVE ON THIS (from the comment section): Iamnotasuperstarphotographer: "Good to see better gender representation......

Cracking interview with Martin Parr on BJP.

I don't know about you but I think Martin Parr always comes across really, really well. This interview with Simon Bainbridge is well worth reading. There is less socially engaged photography in......

Is Getty wearing Leroy’s trousers?.

UPDATE Jean Francois Leroy has emailed duckrabbit to say he will be responding within the next 48 hours. Some of you will have been following the debate about why JF Leroy (Director......

Out Of Sight (photofilm).

One of the great things about teaching on the Masters in Photojournalism at the London College of Communication is that I come into contact with some very talented and switched on people. Many of......

duckrabbit is lucky enough to be.

in Lebanon between 9-14th of October working with Dalia Khamissy (thanks to Jörg) and Copenhagen and Malmo between November 2-7 working with Joseph Rodriguez We are recording radio documentaries and photofilms for the......

Dear Mr Leroy (an open letter).

Thank you for your  response to my post yesterday critisizing the way way certain photo agencies seem content to abuse the rights of indvidual photographers. I am sorry that......

JF Leroy responds ‘My position here is that of an insurance company.’.

Yesterday duckrabbit published a post criticizing the photo industry for selling a set of pictures of the aftermath of the Haitian Earthquake but refusing to compensate the photographer because he had shared them on a twitpic.......

Why AFP, Getty, Jean-Francois Leroy, CNN, ABC, CBS love photographs but have no time for photographers, or ‘it wasn’t rape your honor because she was in the room and I was horny’.

The case that opens today according to NPPA: In a case that could set precedent in online copyright legislation and impact photographers around the world, oral arguments are scheduled to begin Friday......

Ping or pong?.

10 hours a day! Ping Pong Ping Pong Ping Pong Ping Pong. For most of us,......

Cracking blog post on addiction, from one of the best titled blogs ever.

During one of my worse periods, I was working at this job in a bank. I had been out of work for months beforehand, claiming I was living life as an artist but actually......

UK Picture Editors Guild confirms what we all know.

That only men can take award winning photographs. Right? ...

The Rolls-Royce Assembly Line (Carl Pendle).

Why do companies spend tonnes of cash on really, really bad corporate videos when they could make something like this? ...