McCann New York has brought Karsten Jurkschat and Alex Little on board as associate creative directors. The award-winning creative duo was previously at Ogilvy Melbourne, Australia.
In 2015, Jurkschat and Little were named Australia’s Young Creatives of the Year by the Association for Data-Driven Marketing & Advertising (ADMA) and, this year, were named Australia’s Cannes Young Lion Cyber competition winners. Their joint creative work for clients has led to seven awards at the 2017 Cannes International Festival of Creativity, including a Gold Lion in the Creative Data category. Most recently, their work was recognized with several Clios in the Innovation, Product Design, and Digital/Mobile App categories, as well as a D&AD Impact pencil.
“Alex and Karsten are, first and foremost, a great team — they’ve produced award-winning work for national and international clients like AAMI Insurance, BP, and PUMA. Their determination to approach old problems with new perspectives is crucial in the ever-changing marketing landscape,” said Sean Bryan, co-chief creative officer, McCann New York.
At Ogilvy Melbourne, Jurkschat and Little helped lead new business wins and to secure the agency’s first Cannes Gold Lion, propelling the agency to the #3 Innovation Agency of the Year on the Cannes Lion Global Creativity Report 2017.
Both Jurkschat and Little have held tutoring positions at AWARD School Melbourne, a program that prepares young talent for careers in copywriting and art directing.
Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”
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