Phil Poynter, renowned British photographer, has joined the directorial roster at Mill+.
Poynter joins Mill+, The Mill’s content driven collective, to continue building on his long and highly acclaimed career in fashion photography with the addition of moving image direction.
In a career spanning 20-plus years, Poynter has had a prolific impact on the world of fashion photography and editorial content. With his strong sense of narrative and conceptual style, the transition into moving image direction is a natural one.
Poynter has a myriad of strong relationships in the fashion world, regularly contributing to Love Magazine, Vogue Italia Interview, Vogue Germany, Vogue Paris, Luomo Vogue, Vanity fair and Garage. His creative highlights include collaborations with Louis Vuitton, Prada, Givenchy, Maybelline, Lacoste, Rolex, Cadillac, Shiseido Prada and Calvin Klein Cartier and Alexander McQueen.
Poynter’s partnership with Mill+ has grown out of years of successful collaboration with The Mill’s Beauty team, leading to creation of Garage Magazine’s interactive AR cover series and contributions to Love Magazine’s annual advent calendar.
With his wealth of experience in both stills photography and moving image direction for luxury fashion brands and magazines, Poynter perfectly complements the current Mill+ team of directors across the globe, particularly as the industry sees a rise in demand for high quality branded editorial content.
Mill+’s end to end concept to delivery proposition will give Poynter a breadth of opportunities and support him in creating content backed by the scale and expertise of The Mill.
Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist and Writer, Dies At 95
Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children's books, died Friday. He was 95 and, true to his seemingly tireless form, published his last book just four months ago.
Feiffer's wife, writer JZ Holden, said Tuesday that he died of congestive heart failure at their home in Richfield Springs, New York, and was surrounded by friends, the couple's two cats and his recent artwork.
Holden said her husband had been ill for a couple of years, "but he was sharp and strong up until the very end. And funny."
Artistically limber, Feiffer hopscotched among numerous forms of expression, chronicling the curiosity of childhood, urban angst and other societal currents. To each he brought a sharp wit and acute observations of the personal and political relations that defined his readers' lives.
As Feiffer explained to the Chicago Tribune in 2002, his work dealt with "communication and the breakdown thereof, between men and women, parents and children, a government and its citizens, and the individual not dealing so well with authority."
Feiffer won the United States' most prominent awards in journalism and filmmaking, taking home a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for his cartoons and "Munro," an animated short film he wrote, won a 1961 Academy Award. The Library of Congress held a retrospective of his work in 1996.
"My goal is to make people think, to make them feel and, along the way, to make them smile if not laugh," Feiffer told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 1998. "Humor seems to me one of the best ways of espousing ideas. It gets people to listen with their guard down."
Feiffer was born on Jan. 26, 1929, in the Bronx. From... Read More