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    Matt Ashworth, David Kim named exec creative directors at Argonaut

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    SAN FRANCISCO --

    Creative agency Argonaut has hired Matt Ashworth and promoted David Kim, who will both serve as executive creative directors across the shop’s roster of clients, including Cricket Wireless, Fitbit, Hershey and MetLife. Ashworth and Kim will report to chief creative officers Rick Condos and Hunter Hindman.

    A highly sought-after freelancer, Ashworth has more than 20 years of experience as an advertising creative, having worked at shops like Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Hal Riney & Partners, Butler Shine, Stern & Partners and The Martin Agency, as well as Argonaut. Over his career, he has created award-winning work for brands such as Jeep, TD Ameritrade, Chevrolet, HP, Appleton Estate Rum, and Fitbit.

    Kim brings more than 12 years of creative agency experience with Deutsch, Venables Bell & Partners and TBWAChiatDay, among others. While at Deutsch, Kim oversaw all digital efforts on Volkswagen, which included the redesign of VW.com and the development of SmileDrive, a co-branded app between Google and Volkswagen that quantified driving using the driver’s smartphone. Prior to Deutsch, Kim helped pitch and win the Intel business while at VB&P, where he helped create “The Chase” video, recognized at Cannes and TED as one of the top 10 Ads Worth Spreading. He also developed Google’s Fiber campaign in Kansas City, which set the blueprint for successful launches in Austin, Salt Lake City and more.

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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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