Creative studio HOUND has added Rog + Bee Walker to its roster of talent. HOUND will be representing the duo for motion projects, including commercials, music videos and branded content.
As multidisciplinary artists based in New York, Rog + Bee produce portraits and craft original in-depth visual stories. Crediting their upbringing in immigrant households with creating the catalyst to inspire their journey as artists, the duo has turned out a portfolio that is both an expression of their personal stories and an homage to their communities.
Rog + Bee were tapped by the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) to lend a visual voice to the oral histories documented in the groundbreaking exhibit The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America at The Brooklyn Museum of Art in 2017. This collaborative endeavor focused on personal stories of lynching to invite honest dialogue about the legacy of racial injustice in the United States. Rog + Bee were also selected to shoot imagery for the Your Friends in New York for The New York Times, conceived to support emerging black designers. The article and imagery showcased the designs of next-gen fashion collaborative Your Friends in New York (YFINY). Rog + Bee’s featured portraits capture the authentic voices and unique style of the rising talent nurtured by YFINY.
Through their creative studio, Paper Monday, Rog + Bee specialize in various forms of visual storytelling including editorial photography, studio portraiture, film directing, commercial, and documentary coverage. The duo has worked with an array of celebrity talent, including Solange, Pharrell Williams and LeBron James. As highly sought-after thought-leaders, the duo often takes part in speaking engagements, workshops, and editorial appearances for commercial brands. Their work has been commissioned by global brands and platforms, such as Nike, Sony, Google, Vogue, HBO, The New York Times and CNN.
Rog + Bee shared in a joint statement, “We are inspired by the vision of HOUND and are honored to join their multifaceted roster. There are so many stories to be told and expressed, and moving imagery provides us a whole new creative outlet. We look forward to collaborating with the team and are excited to explore deeper storytelling in the commercial realm.”
Jamie Miller, EP/partner at HOUND, said, “Rog + Bee manage to connect us to the essence of the person on the other side of the lens. Their imagery invites the viewer to both witness and participate in a powerful unspoken dialogue, revealing the inner truths of the subject and their story. We are excited that they have chosen to co-create their next chapter with HOUND.”
HOUND is a U.S. and UK-based content studio headed by Joby Barnhart, Missy Galanida, Isaac Rice, and Miller.
Review: Writer-Director Aaron Schimberg’s “A Different Man”
Imagine you could wake up one morning, stand at the mirror, and literally peel off any part of your looks you don't like — with only movie-star beauty remaining.
How would it change your life? How SHOULD it change your life?
That's a question – well, a launching point, really — for Edward, protagonist of Aaron Schimberg's fascinating, genre-bending, undeniably provocative and occasionally frustrating "A Different Man," featuring a stellar trio of Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson and Renate Reinsve.
The very title is open to multiple interpretations. Who (and what) is "different"? The original Edward, who has neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder that causes bulging tumors on his face? Or the man he becomes when he's able to slip out of that skin? And is he "different" to others, or to himself?
When we meet Edward, a struggling actor in New York (Stan, in elaborate makeup), he's filming some sort of commercial. We soon learn it's an instructional video on how to behave around colleagues with deformities. But even there, the director stops him, offering changes. "Wouldn't want to scare anyone," he says.
On Edward's way home on the subway, people stare. Back at his small apartment building, he meets a young woman in the hallway, in the midst of moving to the flat next door. She winces visibly when she first sees him, as virtually everyone does.
But later, Ingrid (Reinsve) tries to make it up to him, coming over to chat. She is charming and forthright, and tells Edward she's a budding playwright.
Edward goes for a medical checkup and learns that one of his tumors is slowly progressing over the eye. But he's also told of an experimental trial he could join. With the possibility — maybe — of a cure.
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