“Do you see it? Understand it? Ok..” (“The mysterious perversion of photography”).

There's an interesting article in the NYT Lens blog by Donald R. Winslow: 'Eddie Adams: 10 Years On, and War Will Never Be the Same"   "When Eddie Adams died 10 years......

Not Ruining the Photo.

Recently I spoke at a conference about the American conflict in Vietnam. This was the first time I had presented a paper at a conference and it was interesting to receive responses after the......

Male rape – Guardian photofilm.

When I watch a photofilm in which the audio features the photographer talking about their images, I often switch off......

Competition: Please fill in the missing word.

Has Steve McCurry proved himself to be a godlike *******, Nachtwey style? According to the ever brilliant APHOTOEDITOR Old schooler McCurry goes for the craigslist classified ad seeking an intern who is “highly motivated”......

Tonight I’m going to let you into one of photojournalism’s dirty little secrets.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is the most colourful place I've ever visited. The women even smile. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="Madam Agata teaches a group of women in their last month of pregnancy to......

Faking it – how to win a World Press Award but get banned from a wildlife comp for life.

During the judging of the recent World Press Awards one thing you can trust is that, on the whole, the judges will pick great pictures. With a hundred thousand or so to......

This is just lovely.

Wish more people made gentle films like this.  And wish more people understood this is a convinceing way to engage people about climate change. Thanks @finnryan for sharing Fly Fishing......

War Never Looked So Hip.

(amended title because Joerg's was MUCH better) Take a look at this picture by Damon Winter, as featured on the (excellent) New York Times, Lens Blog, and part of a series featured......

‘A call to arms to emerging photojournalists’, MOG on Foto8.

Mog wishes to issue a call to arms to emerging photojournalists. Be aware, we are on the brink of a social and cultural revolution that in all likelihood will make Thatcherism seem mild and......

Joerg Colberg to curate Visa Pour L’image.

Everybody knows (and behind his back everybody says) that one of the problems with the Visa, Festival of Shanty Towns, is that it only has one curator, and as time ticks on more and......

The Wrath of Rodriguez.

I'm In Malmo, Sweden, with the photographer Joseph Rodriguez.  We're working on a radio documentary and photofilm about how a whole generation of young immigrants are being lost to a life of crime and......

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......

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......

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......

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......

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......

Audio slideshow: Palestinian Bagpipers.

There's a bag piper who stalks the streets of Kings Heath, where duckrabbit lives.  Well there was until he disapeared a few weeks ago.  Turns out the local mafia put his feet in concrete......

Don McCullin Audio Slideshow on the BBC – Shaped by the War.

Don McCullin is not only a great photographer but he's also a great talker. I caught him this morning on the BBC's TODAY programme. It was a powerful listen. Important too to hear a......

Drawing the dead (audio slideshow).

It's not often the BBC's small audio slideshow team really nail it on the head, but they've put together something special today. Portraits of the Fallen tells the story of a Vietnam veteran who......

Tim Hetherington’s RESTREPO.

Have to say I'm not that arsed about seeing Tim Hetherington's new documentary Restrepo, which follows the lives of a group of American soldiers in Afghanistan throughout a year. Why? Because it will......