Wish you were here….

No, really. You are missing out on one of the most beautiful, creative and inspiring workshops I've ever known. OK, I have a vested interest, but I don't do bullshit. The Hinterlands Workshop is......

“I have four babies, beautiful, gorgeous, why should I ever think about suicide? I had these thoughts in my mind. I was messed up.”.

This is an astonishing photofilm about how one small fishing community has been affected by the BP Oil disaster. What the photofilm lacks in context about the disaster it makes up for in emotional......

Photojournalism and ‘What is the point of ‘exclusivity’ these days?’.

Like many, I have been glued to my computer watching the epic events in Egypt unfold. Images coming in from all over, different views every day, a plethora of images. Visually I have a great......

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......

Is Seeing Believing? (powerful, powerful, photofilm).

In many ways sound is the ultimate visual medium. When we listen to something, or someone, we create images in our mind. One of the clichés of photography, particularly humanitarian photography, is that it......

Submit your thoughts/ideas on the Visa pour L’Image Festival here.

If people have concrete ideas as to how to make anything at Visa or around Visa better, more engaging, more relevant, or more interesting, they should get in touch with us. Think the work......

Where good ideas come from…..

I am going to start off by asking the question "How can 'photofilms' avoid being classified as 'cheaper films' by the film community?" I am honoured to be able to be part of this progressive......

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......

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......

JF Leroy responds ‘My position here is that of an insurance company.’.

Yesterday duckrabbit published a post criticizing the photo industry for selling a set of pictures of the aftermath of the Haitian Earthquake but refusing to compensate the photographer because he had shared them on a twitpic.......

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......

duckrabbit multimedia class at LCC.

duckrabbit are teaching a short module focusing multimedia storytelling on the Masters photojournalism degree course at LCC (starting tomorrow) Paul Lowe, who heads up the course, is a great supporter and advocate......

Wootton Bassett..the town that honours.

Sent to the duck by Ian Forsyth, this multimedia piece looks at the repatriation of soldiers killed on operations whilst in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the thoughts of the residents of Wootton......

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......

A Developing Story – will you help?.

A Developing Story, a new website, which duckrabbit has helped get up and running, has been born: Hopefully the title reflects our......

Rhubard with lashings of custard.

You know how it is. Friday night you've planned to go somewhere but everyone else pulls out. It gets to about nine o'clock and you think can I really be arsed?  Nine times out......

Where it’s at – Maisie Crow.

'Where it's at' is where duckrabbit profiles the work that inspires us.  Last week we were privileged enough to feature the work of Joseph Rodriguez (we'll be putting up some more of......

Joseph Rodriguez – Where it’s at (part 1).

This week we're kicking off a new series ' Where it's at'. This is where the finest work we sing about on duckrabbit......