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    BBDO Acquires Majority Interest In Wednesday Agency Group

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    Wednesday Agency Group co-founders Jens Grede (l) and Erik Torstensson
    NEW YORK and LONDON --

    BBDO Worldwide, a division of Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC), has acquired a majority stake in Wednesday Agency Group, a leading creative agency focused on fashion and luxury lifestyle brands.

    Wednesday Agency Group delivers fully integrated campaigns, content strategy, digital design and branding, and production for some of the world’s best recognized brands in these categories. With over 100 people in offices in London and New York, the group is built on a culture of creative excellence and passion for its industry and clients.

    Andrew Robertson, president and CEO, BBDO Worldwide, said, “I have been an admirer of this group for several years.  They really know the highly specialized sectors they operate in, have constantly evolved their offer to increase their relevance and strengthen their competitive position, and have built a culture that will sit well with ours.”

    Co-founders Jens Grede and Erik Torstensson, heralded by British GQ as two of the most influential men in fashion, will continue their leadership of Wednesday Agency Group together with CEO Glenn Jones and president Ian Schatzberg.  Wednesday will operate as a stand alone agency brand within the BBDO Worldwide Group.

    “As the world’s leading creative network, BBDO presents Wednesday Agency Group with a platform for further growth,” said Grede.  “It will allow us to offer our clients vital services they have been asking us for, such as media planning, analytics and local production.”

    Torstensson adds, “Together with BBDO, we can deliver a tailored best in class creative service on a global basis.  We could not imagine a better partner to our agency, people and clients.” 

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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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