like Glenna Gordon who gave duckrabbit a good ticking off in our last post. Thanks to that I've discovered she's in Liberia doing some amazing work. Check out her blog. This is a wonderful......
Save The Children UK recently went on a publicity campaign attacking Madonna for trying to adopt another child from Malawi. A skeptic would say that their protest is as attention seeking as Madonna......
Tom White of PhotographyLot is always worth reading. He's one of the most intelligent no bullshit writers around. Todays post is no exception: ...
A friend of mine just emailed me an interesting article about the use of music in journalism. This is the opening of Regina Macombs post: 'More and more, photojournalists who would never add anything to......
So me and a photographer who goes by the name of Jerome Pollos have been having a ding dong in the comments section on another post on this blog. To be honest I had......
Over the last couple of days duckrabbit has had several thousand visitors in response to criticism of a photo of a girl seven year old girl undergoing female circumcision. I've been really shocked that some......
Its a shame that the BBC sometimes publishes photography as an afterthought. Often it feels like photographically they are covering important and interesting subjects, half-heartedly. Today's picture story on people suffering mental health problems in......
Abuse is having it taken from you Some ethics are no brainers. Put children's rights first....
So says Black Star photographer Stanley Leary, backing his claim up with some persuasive arguments. It's just a shame the name 'multimedia' or 'audio-slideshow' sucks....
Some of you will know that duckrabbit ( the Benjamin Chesterton half, nothing to do with David) has been getting 'shrill' about the continued publication and celebration of an Andrea Bruce photograph that shows......
that the Washington Post can publish a photo of a seven year old girl being circumcised that includes both the face of the girl and her full name. You can read his incisive words......
whilst I cut off your clitoris ... Not funny is it. So lets start with another story. A famous Iraqi journalist travels to the USA where he gains access to a pedophile ring and gets pictures of......
duckrabbit's phone rings. It my youngest son's teacher, Mrs Rose-Lean. 'We have a problem' she tells me. Uh Oh! Luka has just flushed his pants down the toilet! He's only five God bless him. I think she expects me......
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No ... keep reading duckrabbit. YES. Click here. From what I gather it involves lots of hiding in the bushes. Sounds a bit dodgy to an urbanite like me. You can't get away with that at my......
photography to duckrabbit. Reason why I bring this up, is because it really helped deal with some of my negative emotions about black and white photography, especially the fact that so many people 'black and......
The last time the UN held a special session on drugs they did so under the banner 'A drug free world, we can do it.' It was in 1998. I can't help asking myself.  Are they idiots......
of hearing about the Israelis and Palestinians blowing each other to smithereens? Fair enough, I don't blame you, its a depressing cycle. The easy response of the journalist, is just to give in to the apathy of the......