we spent a long day in the studio yesterday with ‘erwin olaf’ shooting a whole series of images for the 2011-2012 campaign for the dutch national ballet, in fact we made four different images, involving a large number of the top dancers… including one of my favourites ‘anu’ from finland
as i’ve mentioned before ‘erwin’ runs a tight ship and despite the complicated logistics and set changes, the whole thing was finished by 6pm, more news and images soon…
i’d never heard of him before but he is responsible for a great deal of classic hollywood ‘iconography’ and is regarded by many as the godfather of american movie posters: bill gold
talking of arab spring…. very strange this one: the annual ‘world press’ exhibition poster features a gruesomely disfigured young arab woman this year, designer ‘franklin de bekker’ discovered that one of the posters hanging in amsterdam had actually been hand-retouched by somebody using paint to replace her missing nose… wow
(image cortesy of eric wie & franklin himself via facebook)
our latest poster campaign for the ‘cinéma arabe’ film festival is hanging around town this week, or are burqas in public illegal nowadays? hard to tell what’s acceptable anymore with all of the right-wing political factions in the netherlands these days…
remarkable campaign/idea from local amsterdam newspaper ‘het parool’, a single sheet poster listing all of the houses where jews lived in amsterdam during the war and from where they were deported to concentration camps, the idea is that readers who discover that their house is on the list, should hang the poster up, it reads: ‘one of the 21.622 houses where jews lived that were deported and murdered during the second world war’ a sort of analogue geo-tagging history project and awareness campaign in one… very nice idea