Ronald Ng has been appointed chief creative officer of BBDO/Proximity Singapore. He most recently served as executive VP and executive creative director at BBDO New York. Ng is scheduled to relocate to Singapore in August.
Ng brings to his new role almost 20 years of advertising experience, the last eight of which have been with BBDO. At BBDO New York he was involved with a number of high-profile account wins including Johnson & Johnson Baby and Orbitz. He also worked on Monster.com, Hyatt and the Ad Council.
Prior to joining BBDO New York, Ng was chief creative officer at BBDO/Proximity Malaysia. Under his leadership, the agency produced the world’s most awarded print campaign in 2009 (for Jeep) and was ranked #15 in the world in The Gunn Report for creativity.
Danny Searle, current chairman and chief creative officer of BBDO/Proximity Singapore, will remain as chairman of the office, but will take on the additional role of vice chairman of BBDO Asia. Searle will work across regional clients in developing cross border creative work. Searle, who has been in Singapore since 2007, has been responsible for several new business wins in Singapore and beyond, and is directly responsible for the creative output of various BBDO regional clients.
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