Do unto others ….

Very roughly some 2000 years ago we nailed some bloke called Jesus to a tree. Nothing new about that. Nailing people to trees was a rather effective form of crowd control. Since then though a lot......

The Vision and the Voice.

A few days back I exchanged emails with the photographer Stephen Alvarez, who for the last fifteen years has shot for National Geographic. He suggested we take the conversation onto our blogs. If you're not......

“We never knew”.

(click on photo, the video player will load, then click again to play) It's one of those moments you don't......

Thanks Mondo (Multimedia Muse), your words are a real encouragement.

The credit is shared with the masters we worked with at MSF. Jake, Robin, Julie, Martin, Pete, Bruno, Mitch, Pascale and many others. ...

Just another set of limb chopped Africans by a famous photographer.

The headline on the BBC website reads: In Pictures: Rebuilding Wrecked Lives After Sierra Leone's civil war Sounds interesting? Then I flicked to the set and......

‘Kenya hasn’t seen a drop of rain for several years.’.

If you have no knowledge about East Africa you might actually believe a statement like the one written above presumably by the photographer Stephano de Luigi on the VII website. ...

An interesting point of view about the NGOization of African imagery fed to America.

has been posted by Paul Melcher on the Black Star Rising blog. You can read the full post here. duckrabbit doesn't entirely agree with him. I think its actually a bit of a......

Parched in India.

A photographer whose work I've come to admire greatly is Sanjit Das. He and I briefly worked together on a job for the......

Miss HIV, Botswana.

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Time to turn the camera around on Africa.

Think of Africa and you envision wild animals, conflicts, starving kids and suffering. On a whole, this continent hasn’t had the best of times in the past few hundred years. Whilst for some it......

Is this an own goal?.

Having just seen the winner of The Press Photographer's Year, I completely understand now why Kenyan photographers get totally pissed off  so many of the photography jobs go to visitors to their country......

Multimedia -Sexual Warfare, Rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

When duckrabbit lived in Ethiopia the radio programmes that I managed regularly told stories of women and children who had......

How to do it.

Ok...after looking at mediocre photography day in day out for what seems ages, I was sent an email by Marco Vernaschi. He's had a lot of exposure recently, and rightly so. His work is of......

Zimbabwe’s orhans – BBC Audio Slideshow.

There's a quiet and thoughtful audio slideshow running on the BBC about the harsh reality of life for many of Zimabawe's children.  Take a moment out of your day to watch it and......

Have you heard the light?.

Photographer Oliver Edwards has. He's just  signed up for duckrabbit's first Trinity Session. The Trinity Sessions are for photographers and journalists who want to get their head round multimedia storytelling and in particular......