One picture, two points of view.

Take a look, what do you see? Now read these two opposing points of view: Each magnificent photo acknowledges what it took to survive. And......

The long goodbye.

Another powerful audio slideshow by the Paul Kerley of the BBC. The husband of American photographer and writer Judith Fox - Dr Ed Ackell - was told he had Alzheimer's Disease in 1998, three......

a tour of duty – BBC audio slideshow.

The BBC has a great audio slideshow today featuring the voice and photos of former Grenadier guards officer Cpt Alexander Allan who spent six......

Uzbekistan…they all live in pots you know...

Uzbekistan have done themselves no favours on this one...they found photographer and documentary maker Umida Akhmedova guilty. Luckily for her, the judge decided that as it was the, er, 18th anniversary of Uzbeck......

Salão Escola de Beleza Afro – Tiana Markova-Gold (where it’s at).

Some photography creates distances, puts the people in the pics out on some distant horizon you'll never reach, nor would you want to.  Other photography closes the gap, creates understanding and feels like a......

Picturing the homeless – Don McCullin.

Sadly people are not really interested in the photographs I take of a rather depressing side of our society - Don McCullin. In 1989, British photojournalist......

Expanding the circle.

Magnum's Susan Meiselas on photography's potential to connect and move audiences by  "expanding the circle of knowledge" about human rights and social justice issues. ...

Drawing the dead (audio slideshow).

It's not often the BBC's small audio slideshow team really nail it on the head, but they've put together something special today. Portraits of the Fallen tells the story of a Vietnam veteran who......

The Vision and the Voice.

A few days back I exchanged emails with the photographer Stephen Alvarez, who for the last fifteen years has shot for National Geographic. He suggested we take the conversation onto our blogs. If you're not......

Climate change Bangladesh.

Bonjournio mon amigos, Couple more pics for you fine folk. The first one was taken in a tiny village called Forki. I had been walking through the village to take pics of where the water......

‘Kenya hasn’t seen a drop of rain for several years.’.

If you have no knowledge about East Africa you might actually believe a statement like the one written above presumably by the photographer Stephano de Luigi on the VII website. ...

Angry people in local newspapers……..

There's lots of them....see for yourself. I think I may have been permanently affected by the pic of Paul and Debbie with the sausage. It's just not right. ...

Does photojournalism undermine human rights?.

Next week duckrabbit will be on a panel at Amnesty International debating: Alive or dead? The evolution of photography in the digital age. Photojournalism has been on its knees for some time,......

Black Boys On Mopeds.

I read a comment on Lightstalkers by a photojournalist who said that growing up in London twenty years ago he wasn't aware of any racism. It's typical of a revisionist version of the world......

There is so much good stuff on John Edwin Mason’s blog right now.

Much better than anything you'll find here. Take an hour and start reading back. It made my night. Subscribe to duckrabbit's feed......

I so wanted to back a UK photographer.

for Magnum's expression award but  Andrea Star Reese's work blew me away.  I mean the world really doesn't need another essay about homeless people in New York, right? Wrong. 'The Urban Cave, is an......

duckrabbit recommends.

duckrabbit just came across the excellent blog SLIGHTLY LUCID.  Highly recommended. ...

INCLUSIVITY and photography – a thoughtful response.

Some time ago duckrabbit ran a silly competition offering $1000 to anyone who could successfully justify to Stan Banos why PDN set up a 22 strong all white photography judging panel. The competition,......

The power of blogs (from duckrabbit’s mates at PDN).

PDN contacted two dozen photographers who have been featured in the past year on influential blogs and online galleries to find out how the exposure affected their careers. Increased traffic on their Web......

In England.

A chance trip......