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    Group CD Naylor, head of communications strategy Poynter join Barton F. Graf

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    NEW YORK --

    Barton F. Graf has hired Nate Naylor and Dominic Poynter to serve, respectively, as group creative director and head of communications strategy.

    Naylor will work on a number of new agency clients and will advise on creative direction and design across Barton’s client list. Naylor, who brings 18 years of experience to the role, spent the past five years freelancing as an art and creative director and has developed campaigns for Cadillac, Comedy Central, Nike and HP, among others. He co-directed video for U2 and developed the launch of Bono’s (Red) initiative. Naylor’s agency experience spans across Wieden + Kennedy, Modernista!, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, and Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners.

    As head of communications strategy, Poynter will report directly to chief strategy officer Laura Janness and will be responsible for advising all clients on driving ideas across channels. Poynter joins Barton from Anomaly, where he was head of communications planning. While there, he worked on award-winning campaigns for the Super Bowl and World Cup for Budweiser, as well as on other brands like Diageo and Duracell. Early in his career, Poynter left his role as business director at Mindshare UK to pursue an MBA at NYU Stern School of Business.

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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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