Phil Poynter, renowned British photographer, has joined the directorial roster at Mill+.
Poynter joins Mill+, The Mill’s content driven collective, to continue building on his long and highly acclaimed career in fashion photography with the addition of moving image direction.
In a career spanning 20-plus years, Poynter has had a prolific impact on the world of fashion photography and editorial content. With his strong sense of narrative and conceptual style, the transition into moving image direction is a natural one.
Poynter has a myriad of strong relationships in the fashion world, regularly contributing to Love Magazine, Vogue Italia Interview, Vogue Germany, Vogue Paris, Luomo Vogue, Vanity fair and Garage. His creative highlights include collaborations with Louis Vuitton, Prada, Givenchy, Maybelline, Lacoste, Rolex, Cadillac, Shiseido Prada and Calvin Klein Cartier and Alexander McQueen.
Poynter’s partnership with Mill+ has grown out of years of successful collaboration with The Mill’s Beauty team, leading to creation of Garage Magazine’s interactive AR cover series and contributions to Love Magazine’s annual advent calendar.
With his wealth of experience in both stills photography and moving image direction for luxury fashion brands and magazines, Poynter perfectly complements the current Mill+ team of directors across the globe, particularly as the industry sees a rise in demand for high quality branded editorial content.
Mill+’s end to end concept to delivery proposition will give Poynter a breadth of opportunities and support him in creating content backed by the scale and expertise of The Mill.
A Closer Look At Proposed Measures Designed To Curb Google’s Search Monopoly
U.S. regulators are proposing aggressive measures to restore competition to the online search market after a federal judge ruled Google maintained an illegal monopoly for the last decade.
The sweeping set of recommendations filed late Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice could radically alter Google's business, including possibly spinning off the Chrome web browser and syndicating its search data to competitors. Even if the courts adopt the blueprint, Google isn't likely to make any significant changes until 2026 at the earliest, because of the legal system's slow-moving wheels.
Here's what it all means:
What is the Justice Department's goal?
Federal prosecutors are cracking down on Google in a case originally filed during near the end of then-President Donald Trump's first term. Officials say the main goal of these proposals is to get Google to stop leveraging its dominant search engine to illegally squelch competition and stifle innovation.
"The playing field is not level because of Google's conduct, and Google's quality reflects the ill-gotten gains of an advantage illegally acquired," the Justice Department asserted in its recommendations. "The remedy must close this gap and deprive Google of these advantages."
Not surprisingly, Google sees things much differently. The Justice Department's "wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision," Kent Walker, Google's chief legal officer, asserted in a blog post. "It would break a range of Google products — even beyond search — that people love and find helpful in their everyday lives."
It's still possible that the Justice Department could ease off on its attempts to break up Google, especially if President-elect Donald Trump... Read More