Bristol photo festival – open slideshow call for entries.

An old colleague of mine from back in the day sent me a little note asking that I would highlight a great project that he's involved in. John Angerson is helping run an......

The results sometimes are.

Technology will proceed, improve and on occasion digress- as photography will continue to diversify and incorporate: retro film enthusiasts, multi media story tellers, up to the second digital journalists with their portable......

Snakes in conference.

"There was a three-foot-long black snake in the main conference room the other day." Now, I've been in a fair few hairy editorial conferences...never enjoyable, but I've never had to deal with that sort of......

Obligation to the Story.

You could have given another journalist the same access I had during the same time period with the same battalion with the same series of events, and that journalist would have written......

If you forgot what’s its like to struggle to live.

watch this girl ask Gordon Brown to pay her Mum (who is a cleaner in the treasury) a 'living wage'. She did great ... watch the video here. ...

Inspiration: Stuart Freedman (where it’s at).

I popped up some interesting words by Stuart on the blog last night, but if you want a masterclass on how a photographer can cover gritty stories, without reducing the people in the photos......

98% operator and 2% equipment.

I’m calling it as I see it.  DSLR video is a fad – at least in solo video journalism it is.  Plain and simple.  There are many who have become enamoured......

unconcerned but not indifferent.

"In the final analysis we were choosing between a French landscape, a dead guerrilla, an HIV positive mother and an American soldier. A strange task. Rather predictably the majority vote went to Tim Hetherington’s......

Too good to be true?.

John Edwin Mason has been one of the unsung heroes of the photo blog world. Personally he's been a great source of inspiration, support and wisdom to duckrabbit. But I really think he's lost......

duckrabbit are in Rome all this week.

eating pizza, drinking beer and if we can find the time training a cracking bunch of people at Bioversity's centre. ...

Getty buys Rex. Epic Fail..

The Selby's have caved in. Bollocks. Bollocks and triple bollocks. Nice retirement for Mike and the family. Shithouse for the snappers. ...

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.

The BBC is reporting that the author Alan Sillitoe has died. Alan grew up in the slums of Nottingham and retained his anger at the struggle of so many working class families.......

World’s worst tourism poster?.

More disturbing info here....

Some geezer called Yelland writes:.

" In so many ways, a vote for the Lib Dems is a vote against Murdoch and the media elite."...

Kerrang! Bauer loses it’s Mojo…..

Ok...I know that post title makes no sense really, but it looks better than my previous effort, which was something along the lines of 'Bauer are naughty, don't supply them...' At last there......

If you dream of studying with one of the all time great photographers.

Who also happens to be one of the most inspiring teachers around. Then  why don't you just do it? ...

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The daily death toll at the border city of Ciudad Juarez now exceeds that of Baghdad Stan Banos on BagNewsNotes ...