Alzheimer’s, in fresh light.

It's one of people's worst fears. To either lose your mind or watch the mind of someone you love slowly disappear.  Phillip Toledano explored this photographically in his thought provoking website and book ...

Photographer Chris Steele-Perkins’s view of England.

Fantastic piece on the Guardian's site about Chris Steele-Perkins's images of England over the last 40 years. His work is currently on show at King's Place gallery. Londinium town. ...

Kicking Off – my kind of awesome.

One of the great things of being an occasional teacher on LCC's photojournalism masters is the talented students you get to meet.  Much of the work is very inspiring. This ninety second (that's......

Jonny Be Good.

A few days ago I had the pleasure of watching back in class the work of some of my students on the Masters in Photojournalism at the London College of Communication.  Both myself and......

The Vanishing Mind: another piece of awesome from the New York Times.

If you're serious about making good multimedia you should really make it your business to spend 15 minutes on the New York Times' website every morning. And the Washington Post too for......

Audio Slideshows, to subtitle, or not to subtitle?.

Interesting thoughts by Craig Butcher about whether enough is being done to make multimedia accessible to people with hearing impairments. I have to mention that I am an advocate in web accessibility and......

The Green Book Materials.

This is a masterclass in documentary production. Nothing is out of place.  Watch for the ending.  It just crushed me. ...

No other journalist in the UK is using multimedia on a project in such a sustained and important way as Ciara Leeming.

This is essential work that deserves widespread recognition.  It's not sexy because the people in the stories are mainly working class white people but it's a template for in depth reportage on......

In Silence.

"What happened to us should not happen to anyone." Photographer Susan Meiselas and reporter Dumeetha Luthra traveled to India for Human Rights Watch to retrace the steps of one woman who died after......

Why you should give yourself a project.

One of the hardest things about working for yourself as a journalist or producer is keeping in the habit of finding, researching and producing stories. At first, you're not as exposed to them as much......

‘Ethics and photojournalism’.

This is an extract taken from a very interesting post by the wonderful photographer  Stuart Freedman. You can read the full post on the excellent EPUK website. The presiding styles of photo......

Intimate audio.

Have you checked out the daily blog Someone Once Told Me? It's a collection of photographs where the subjects are holding up a phrase someone once told them, that has somehow affected their......

Classic cars in Gaza.

The BBC have featured some pretty surprising audio slideshows about life in Gaza and the West Bank, not least one duckrabbit features before about Palestinian Bagpipers. Here's an audio slideshow that will......

Multimedia’s ‘open mic’ night.

When Duckrabbit gave a mention to Carousel SlideSlam, Foto8's new evening for photographers and multimedia producers, the warning was it: "could either be utterly sublime or......

Civil Rights Battles, in black and white.

There's a wonderful gallery of images from the civil rights movement in America running on the New York Times Lens blog. Some of these images have never been seen, locked away in law archives......

Why Not Images of Haiti – By Haitians?.

'There is a decades-old criticism of the "outsider," most often journalists from developed nations, arriving in underdeveloped nations to tell the story of "insiders." Whether HIV/AIDS in sub–Saharan Africa, conflict in the Middle East,......

Mishoka’s Story.

(3rd Place, Feature Audio Slideshow, Best of Photojournalism 2010) Congratulations to all the other winners. This video......

Why Context Matters.

Answers to the following questions will not be found here or here: Who are these villagers? What are their lives like? How do they know how to strip an elephant? What use is made of its......

How photography lies.

even when it's telling the truth? Essential reading. ...

War photographer: a dangerous idolatry.

“In times when (some) photographers hold celebrity status, it is useful to be reminded that a good photograph does not solely depend on the photographer’s ability to choose the right subject, location and light,......