Merkinch community artwork © John MacPherson This is Inverness, Scotland. An eerily prescient slice of community artwork on a......
The small details are often the most telling, and are probably more appropriate to focus on just now. It's not the end, it's the journey. (As an......
Spider does the business on a careless wasp © John MacPherson ...
Using Facebook, Cameras, and Cash, Syrian Refugees Are Trying to Save Each Other Lebanon 2014 © Alice Su ...
Concerned community members guard liquor store in Ferguson © Trymaine Lee .........to anyone who......
This is very very clever, very thought provoking, but very simple. It's also a lovely and engaging short film by Thomas Leveritt that makes a BIG point effortlessly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9BqrSAHbTc&feature=youtu.be Thank you Michal Dzierza @michald for......
SWEDISH DAD TAKES GAMER KIDS TO WAR ZONE: A Swedish father has come under fire for taking his two sons on a trip to Israel, the West Bank and occupied Syria in......
This has ended up a longer post than intended, with many links. I started writing it with only the germ of an idea and no clear idea where it might lead me, as I......
Some of you may remember my previous post The Final Cut, about craftsmanship and the indefinable 'feel' that well-used tools often possess, and the price we often must pay for 'progress'. What that......
Events in Gaza over the last few weeks have appalled me. By any standards what has been perpetrated there is unacceptable. Both side's hands bloodied, and in the middle, too many innocent civilians with......
Lego. It's great stuff. My wee lad loves it. (Personally speaking I prefer Meccano - more imagination and finesse required in my fumble opinion). What's Lego made from? Plastic I guess. Where does that come......
The Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year awards were made last night. I was a finalist in the film category for best environmental video for my Clootie Well piece. Sad to......
My mother's cousin was Bill Millin, he was Lord Lovat's piper, and one of the many heroes of the D Day landings and battles in France. Bill used to stay in our home......
I've written several times before about metadata and its importance to history and the ways it can enable images to be properly used, or misused. In 'Henry Carter and the Divisive......
......makes a great deal of sense. We don't talk about it often enough. Who's watching......
John MacPherson has written many thought-provoking posts about the relationship between memory and photography here on duckrabbit. Posts both about his Mother, who has dementia, and his beloved partner Melanie, who......
I 'stumbled' into an 'unboxing video' on youtube once when looking for some info on some photo doohickey or other that I wanted to buy, and was astonished. A video review just about opening......
Joshua Lutz, Hesitating Beauty Fiction has been an accepted element of art photography for almost as long as photography has......
Image © Ami Vitale I was intrigued by the NYT Lens piece by James Estrin 'The Real Story behind......
I've already detailed on a number of occasions poor governance at the World Press Photo awards. Today I want to write about another example, worse in many ways than the others. But first......