Disruption and Tech.

As I cleared my mum's house when she was moved into care suffering from dementia I discovered a small brooch on top of a wardrobe concealed within a dusty cobwebbed envelope. It was easy......

“I Have a Name” (…and now I have a face too).

  Every now and again you cross paths with a stranger, and from that collision of orbits something unexpected occurs. It happened to me some......

A finger, a trigger, a shoe. A death..

Image Burhan Ozbilici—AP   Grant Scott has a very thoughtful piece on his site The United Nations of Photography titled 'The Single......

The Price of Free, The Value of Me.

Milked for all we're worth. That's the creative......

Fashion. Victim..

The way stuff pops up in Twitter often surprises me. This morning it knocked me for six. Two tweets, two images, related. But miles and miles apart. In so many ways. First I saw this (posted by......

“Do you see it? Understand it? Ok..” (“The mysterious perversion of photography”).

There's an interesting article in the NYT Lens blog by Donald R. Winslow: 'Eddie Adams: 10 Years On, and War Will Never Be the Same"   "When Eddie Adams died 10 years......

5 minutes in deep space….

Image © James Woodend.  Winner of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2014 Competition.  The exhibition is on at the......

Lone Star State (of mind).

The Lone Star state © John MacPherson Many of you who read my (long) piece......

It’s good to see.

I've had a few community involvement jobs recently working with novice and aspirant photographers, helping them improve their photographic ability. Most of them expect techy stuff, and when I say "Nah, it's not about......

Not Ruining the Photo.

Recently I spoke at a conference about the American conflict in Vietnam. This was the first time I had presented a paper at a conference and it was interesting to receive responses after the......

You are the mass media.

Peter (our Director of Operations) gave an interview to Al Jazeera today about the Kony film (don't worry this post is NOT about that).  One of the questions was 'What did Stop Kony do that......

Through the eyes of children.

You can't take a photographer seriously if they dont use a big imposing DSLR, and a really big long zoom lens. Aye right. If you believe that you'll probably also believe I can sell you......

2020VISION: Making pictures work..

What do you get if you give several aspiring young photographers some support, guidance and an opportunity to undertake real assignment work?  You get commitment, insight and great results. I'm really pleased that a major......

Be a boxer, own a monkey and play the drums….

                                        Bruce Gilden on life, ambition and why he became a photographer.  Interview in VICE magazine here....

Photography and freedom of expression. It’s not just the police that restrict it..

duckrabbit would like to welcome the writer, photographer and all round top bloke Julian Lass to our team. We met at Arles and sparked.......

Photofilm: The Tar Sands.

Photographer Alan Ginoux came on a duckrabbit photofilm workshopa year ago and since then he's excelled.  His work on the environmental devastation that is taking place in the tar sands of Norther......

I spent two days trying to work out who I managed to blag a lift with to Arles from Marseille Airport after my ride stood me up.

I'm a bit shit with names. Apparantly it was a photographer called Andreas Gursky. Have you heard of him? He was a proper, proper gentleman. Sorry I didn't put two and two together Andreas (you were......

Christopher Morris, ‘Shut up, stop thinking for yourself and kneel before the almighty war photographer’s pictures’. Rafiqui., ‘Err, maybe not tonight Chris’..

The VII photographer Christopher Morris has responded to my post 'The War Photographers biggest story: themselves', which I published a few days ago, and which seems to have hit a nerve. I'm posting......

The war photographer’s biggest story: themselves.

Is the 'best' story a war photographer can provide these days - the one that will get the most space - themselves?  Not just any photographer though. They need to be western and preferably......

The way to make photography pay? Kadir van Lohuizen puts his work behind two paywalls.

(please see update at the bottom) There is a lot of buzz around apps (iPhone and iPad) for photographers. The ones that that help you share pictures to the web or give your pics a retro......