Jack Picone is 1. A great bloke 2. A great trainer 3. A great photographer I spent some time in Kenya with Jack last year and it was real pleasure. I watched him train first hand......
I was hanging with a very good friend, Paul, who is an extraordinarily talented singer songwriter and storyteller. At about 2.A.M I decided to introduce him to Nick Cave, so I rang him up, but......
As Ben mentioned below, I have been out this week working with disadvantaged teens and NEETS (not in education, employment or training) running a documentary photography course. Unfortunately I only ended up with three students,......
I can't recommend that you watch this video of an Afghani woman being flogged. Its very disturbing. Truth is it's not that different to what goes on behind closed doors in the ...
As we speak duckrabbit partner in crime David White is somewhere on the streets of Bristol helping disadvantaged kids to express something about their lives through photography. It's the kind of work we love because......
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......
Following on from duckrabbit's last post I'd like to congratulate Maximiliano Braun on receiving a Getty grant for his moving project: Stay With Me 'The Getty Images grant will allow me 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......