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    Joan Creative adds creative, strategy, account mgt. staffers

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    NEW YORK --

    Joan Creative has made eight key hires spanning creative, strategy and account management. The moves reflect the agency’s significant organic growth, as well as an influx of new business wins.

    Joining the creative roster are award-winning creative director Lindsey Lanpher who comes from Anomaly and BBH; director of creative services Rebecca Patrick from BuzzFeed and Ogilvy; executive producer Laura Lepre, who prior to joining the agency had been at Mother, Ogilvy and the Tyra Banks Show; sr. designer Gonzalo Hergueta, previously at Johannes Leonardo, was an ADC Young Guns Finalist and whose work has been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and art director Boris Opacic who joins from Fallon Minneapolis.

    Also coming aboard are strategy director Chris Turney, formerly from Argonaut and BBDO, group account director Luisa Bundy who joins from Anomaly, startup creative entertainment agency Sunshine and Wieden+Kennedy, and jr. strategist Hannah Lewman.

    To accommodate its growing staff, Joan will be relocating to a new NYC office at 44 Wall St. by the end of the year. 

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    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

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