In Search of Brigadoon.

I went in search of Brigadoon last week. If you've no idea what I'm talking about this link might enlighten you. Where exactly I wandered I'm not revealing lest it spoil your own search......

‘Inside The Fort’.

(I first posted this article here in 2011, and promised that I would update it at some point with more images and better scans. Well I managed it at last so I’m reposting it!......

The Fish That Never Swam.

My mother was one of 15 children, born into a Lanarkshire mining family near Glasgow. Her dad was a miner, and several of her brothers and nephews went into the pit to toil beside......

NC500: The Long and Wounding Road.

The NC500 was 'launched' back in 2015, a tourism marketing strategy to 'sell' the concept of a 'Highland Route 66' taking visitors through some of the UK's most remote landscapes and arguably its most......

The Sister With The Photos.

Editors note: Buku Sarkar is a woman from India, and a writer & photographer. This is the story of an ongoing project she has 'stumbled' into. Unlike many other illustrated stories from India presented......

Disruption and Tech.

As I cleared my mum's house when she was moved into care suffering from dementia I discovered a small brooch on top of a wardrobe concealed within a dusty cobwebbed envelope. It was easy......

Love & Loss on a Northern Isle.

It started in the wee hours, a distant keening that came and went as the wind gusting in off the Atlantic hustled around our van. It was in the notquitedark, an hour or so......

Living with a tiger.

Living with a tiger © John MacPherson "Oh Donnie, Donnie, please.....please....straighten yourself up, please!  ......

“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......

Market Town : Legal highs & lows.

'M' 33, pictured at home. "My mates were big into tobacco when I was 12, 13 so I messed about with that. Used to......

What groundbreaking images of ‘Africa’ can we expect this year from Visa Festival of Shanty Towns?.

If the video running off the front page of the Visa website is anything to go by they are: MADNESS and DESPAIR? ...

The battle of Byker – Amber Collective/BBC Radio 4.

There's been a lot of coverage over recent months about the shock decision of the Arts Council not to continue revenue funding Newcastle's renowned Side......

Pitch perfect storytelling.

Lots of craft going on here, in more ways than one. Kauri multimedia are based in Spain. There is a sweetness and light to their work. Wonderful. http://vimeo.com/23289392 Etienne Bellanger always wanted to be a......

Become a real photographer; shoot porn and tramps with the new Fuji x100.

It's funny to watch how photojournalism and advertising are merging. Pushed by the likes of World Press and Visa Festival of Shanty Towns, photojournalism is more and more judged as an aesthetic pursuit,......

Ever thought about killing the person who leaves dirty cups in the sink?.

For me there is always a story under the story in the best photofilms. James Hooker gets this. Earlier this year I was invited to spend a couple of days with the undergraduates......

‘Showing Congolese as only traumatized victims (or killers) may be highly offensive … but mostly it’s untrue.’.

Yesterday I put up a post that in part explored how highly staged and stylized photography has come to define how we perceive women survivors of rape in The Congo. I've been pretty amazed that no-one wants......

Getty Grants For A Good Laugh.

close today. Last year they awarded the major grant to Stefano De Luigi for a project title T.I.A, 'This Is Africa'. If you get to the end of this (extended) post you'll be......

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......

‘You are thirst – and thirst is all I know’ (inspired and inspiring photofilm).

Every now and again duckrabbit has the pleasure of training someone who understands that to nail a great photofilm has as much to with sweat as it does talent. David Mansell-Moullin......