Abundance – a photofilm.

What a wonderful idea. http://vimeo.com/35007176 "Abundance is a fruit harvesting and distribution project that started in Sheffield and since has inspired similar projects across the country. "It's basically legal scrumping. Tree owners call Abundance, Abundance round up......

Saving a nation’s memories.

As well as being the 10th anniversary of 9/11, tomorrow also marks the six-month anniversary of the devastating Japanese earthquake and tsunami. And there, an army of volunteers have spent recent months working to......

WOW WOW WOW. The most beautiful timelapse photofilm I have ever seen..

WOW. No Really. WOW. WOW. One day someone will make a photofilm as beautiful as this and combine it with a story and blow everyone's minds ...this will blow your mind anyway and I guess the......

More On The Future.

Some interesting thoughts by Claudia Hinterseer of NOOR Images in this BJP article: “The present is (roughly) making stories on spec and selling pics for publication in print, online and so on, the future......

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......

For your viewing pleasure: The Big Caption.

As you've probably read over the last week, we're big fans of photo-blogs like the New York Times' Lens blog, which showcase some of the best photography from around the world each......

Boston Big Picture vs BP.

I tried to think of something clever to put here. Pointless. LOOK. ...

raw beauty – Iceland’s volcano.

Sometimes you have to just sit back and marvel at the power of Mother Nature. These photos by Icelandic photographer Ragnar Th. Sigurdsson of the......

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......

WOW WOW WOW.

Watch this video featuring National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen ... really do! ...

An illuminated view of climate change in Bangladesh.

Yesterday in London I decided to get wonderfully lost. I had some hours to kill and so I started walking along the river not really caring where I ended up. Where I ended up was......

Sometimes it takes just one picture….

...to show you the importance of stepping back, and slowing down. ...and sometimes we don't even need a human being to take it. ADAM WESTBROOK...

Tsunami – five years on.

It's hard to believe that Saturday will mark five years since the devastating south Asian Tsunami which claimed some 300,000 lives. To mark this anniversary - hardly one to celebrate - DFID, the......

‘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. ...

Oxfam and the Guardian launches interactive documentary on Bangladesh.

Its brilliant that Oxfam have put so much effort into creating an online documentary about the effects of climate change on the people of Bangladesh. On the upside Oxfam used a local media team who......

Power politics.

Keeping with the theme of environmental issues, mediastorm's latest multimedia feature is an exploration of the crisis posed by open-cast mining in......

The Prix Pictet prize has just been announced.

Great photo's, but if the world is any less fucked for them I'm a coconut. (let's face it we're only talking about this award because the winner gets £50000) UPDATE On the Prix Pictet......

Bangladesh – the reality of climate change..

I have decided to put up a selection of images that I shot in Bangladesh over the couple of weeks that Benjamin and I were there. I have chosen to present this selection in......

Is duckrabbit the only person dissapointed that Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize?.

Seriously, I'm a big Obama fan and I think he's done a lot already in reaching out to the world, but it seems a bit premature. America, alongside China and India, is currently......

Typhoon Ketsana, on Boston Big Picture Blog.

An incredible set of pictures. Photography dead anyone? ...