This is not Ferguson.

Merkinch community artwork © John MacPherson This is Inverness, Scotland. An eerily prescient slice of community artwork on a......

“The man I am today”.

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......

That other world wide web.

Spider does the business on a careless wasp © John MacPherson   ...

Collected, connected, sent and saved (maybe).

Using Facebook, Cameras, and Cash, Syrian Refugees Are Trying to Save Each Other Lebanon 2014 © Alice Su ...

These black men represent a threat………..

Concerned community members guard liquor store in Ferguson © Trymaine Lee   .........to anyone who......

How the sun sees you.

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......

Game on.

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......

Metadata, objectivity and emotion.

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......

Lighting creative spaces.

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......

Screams, smiles and selfies.

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......

All in all its just another brick in the wall.

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 Toxic Price of Leather.

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......

Love and war.

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......

Metadata, time and the story of our pasts.

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......

Talking shit…...

......makes a great deal of sense. We don't talk about it often enough.   Who's watching......

Memory, pictures, labels, loss.

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......

Unboxing Appalachia.

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......

Hesitant Fictions.

Joshua Lutz, Hesitating Beauty Fiction has been an accepted element of art photography for almost as long as photography has......

Tears for fears.

  Image © Ami Vitale I was intrigued by the NYT Lens piece by James Estrin 'The Real Story behind......

Man up for the World Press Photo Awards.

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......