The only thing you really own.

Just something I read on Gmb Akash's Facebook Page. “ Most people like to own things, you know, land, luggage, other people. Makes them feel secure, but all that can be taken away. In the......

‘Shit got rural’.

I was just looking for a Wretch 32 tune to go with my last post. The comment I found beneath one of his tunes means I have to dedicate a post just to the......

Editorial photographers and business. Retch (32)..

Eeeuuuggh. Fancy. Imagine having to run a business as an editorial photographer. How tasteless. Isn't it all about the art, daahling?. Not if you want to eat it isn't.   If you are an editorial photographer, or......

#FF Funky Friday 2.

Shucks. Why not. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNOAM22yPAo...

Hang on….rubs eyes….

You mean....a photo competition that's not rights grabbing, which has interesting prizes ( if you like, er, gorillas), and that gives half of all fees to Actionaid?   Even some of the judges know what they're doing....not......

#FF Funky Friday.

Turn it up. If your boss or colleagues have a pop blame me.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZBmw5LMKhI...

Shit London Awards.

Check them out ...

Why Jim Mortram’s work on Market Towns is one of the great British photo projects of our times.

Read the text. Look at the photos in the film. If you still don't get it, you probably never will. This work is dynamite. Don't do Jim a favor, do yourself one, buy a print.......

What Photos Can or Cannot Do.

'Photographs are not entirely powerless: They can make us feel bad (or good). But they cannot change the world. We can change the world. For that to happen, we must be open to what......

Dear Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings.

I began my love affair with your music during one of those runs of late nights where nothing much makes sense and sleep is a darkness to be fought off. Some people can map their......

Happy Thanksgiving.

For all our readers from the USA thanks for dropping by and here's wishing you and yours a happy thanksgiving. And since we're in festive spirit here's an absolute peach of a photofilm by ...

Photography and the value of interaction.

I came across the work of Studs Terkel decades ago and was riveted. Terkel's gift was to be able to make other people talk about themselves,  to genuinely listen to what they said,......

Sheik Yerbouti..

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. Ralph Waldo Emerson...

“…we bring a little of the bathwater home with us…….”.

Nice quote from a Guardian article on 'amateur' street photography by John Carvill.   "The novelist Saul Bellow once described his habit of recharging his creative energies by plunging into the New York subway and......

Spot the difference..

This is a golden ruler. This is the Golden Rule.   Unless you're putting up an ikea wardrobe,......

Amazing international photofilm assignment. But are you ready?.

I've just got off the phone from a Director of Communications for a large reaseach organisation that want to commision duckrabbit to lead a week long workshop in Bangladesh and then follow it up......

Funk is not just for Fridays, its for life.

(Young people, the arts and immortality) The untimely death of Martyn Bennet in 2005 aged only 33 years robbed us of one of the UK's most innovative musicians. For those of you not familiar......

I Is Like Professshunall.

No joke. I like my gadgets and I like my software. As proof of my serious geekery, a quick tool around my studio easily reveals several Apple products, quite a bit of Nikon, various......

Authority Means Nothing.

I have no big speech of indignation to issue about this. Just watch the video. It's obvious. Some "civil society" we supposedly live in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AdDLhPwpp4&hd=1 An open letter to Chancellor......