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Anthony Haden-Guest
Art & Collecting Columnist
FINANCIAL TIMES - London
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The Financial Times, one of the
world's leading business newspapers, is recognized internationally
for its authority, integrity and
accuracy. Anthony Haden-Guest is the weekly
columnist on art and collecting. The newspaper is printed in 19
cities across the globe, has a daily circulation of over
480,000 and a readership of more than 1.6
million people worldwide.
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Laura
Paterson
Specialist,
Department of
Photographs
CHRISTIE'S - New York |
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Laura Paterson joined Christie's in 1994
and is responsible for appraisals and
estimating photographic works for auction. Founded in 1766 by
James Christie, Christie’s is the world's leading art business
with global sales in 2006 of $4.67 billion. Prior to joining Christie's
New York, Ms. Paterson worked at the Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford and earned a Master of Arts degree in Art History in 1982 and a
Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management in 1990,
both from the University of Edinburgh.
Richard
Copping
Creative Director
SAATCHI &
SAATCHI - Singapore
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Richard Copping was educated at St. Edmunds
college in England and went on to complete a BA in graphics and
design at Middlesex College London before moving to JWT,
London as an Art Director in 1997. He moved to
Singapore in 2000 working at BBDO an Bates before moving to SAATCHI & SAATCHI.
His work has won in international shows at Cannes,
D&AD, Clio, AdFest,
Singapore CCA's and The One Show.
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Genevieve
Janvrin
London Director, Department
of Photographs
PHILLIPS de PURY & COMPANY - London |
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Phillips was founded in London in 1796
by Harry Phillips formerly senior clerk to
James Christie. During his first year of business Phillips
conducted 12 successful auctions and soon the business was holding
sales for some of the most distinguished collectors
of the day, including Marie Antoinette, Beau
Brummel and Napoleon. In 1999, the company
was bought by Bernard Arnault, the chairman of Moet
Hennessey (LVMH). Shortly after the transaction, Mr.
Arnault merged with the esteemed private art dealers, Simon
de Pury and Daniela Luxembourg. In 2002,
de Pury & Luxembourg took majority control of the company and in
2003, Simon de Pury moved the headquarters to the art
district of Chelsea, New York. It is in
this space today, where Simon de Pury, his partners and team of
specialists are dedicated to the company's unique approach to the
auction market.
Julius Wiedemann was born and raised in
Brazil. After studying graphic design and marketing, he
moved to Japan where he worked in Tokyo as art
editor for digital and design magazines. Since
joining TASCHEN, he has been building up the digital
and media collection with titles such the
popular Advertising Now series and
TASCHEN's 1000 Favorite Websites.
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Amy Steigbigel
Director of Photography (NY)
Charlie Holland
Director of Photography (LA)
GETTY IMAGES - Los Angeles & New York
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Every day people around the world see
Getty Images on the front pages of newspapers and
magazines, within multinational advertising campaigns,
on the covers of best-selling books, in motion
pictures and everywhere else images are used to tell a
story.
Gettyimages.com serves an average of 2.3 million unique
visitors each month with over 2.3 billion thumbnails and 161 million page
views. Nearly 100 percent of the company’s visual content is delivered
digitally. In 2005, American Photo Magazine acknowledged
the company’s commitment to the photography industry, naming Getty Images’
co-founders Jonathan Klein and Mark Getty as number one of “The 100
Most Important People in Photography.”
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Audrey Jonckheer
Director, Worldwide Public Relations
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
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With the slogan "you press the button, we do the rest," George
Eastman put the first simple camera into the hands of a world of
consumers in 1888. In so doing, he made a cumbersome and complicated process
easy to use and accessible to nearly everyone. Since that time, the
Eastman Kodak Company has led the way with an abundance of new products
and processes and continues to expand the ways images touch people's daily
lives. The company ranks as a premier multinational corporation, with a
brand recognized in virtually every country around the world.
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Joseph Earley
Executive Vice President,
Publicity, Corporate Communications
and
Creative Services Department
FOX BROADCASTING COMPANY - Los Angeles
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Joe Earley was named Executive Vice President, Publicity,
Corporate Communications and Creative Services for Fox Broadcasting
Company in August 2004. In this position, Mr. Earley supervises all
aspects of entertainment publicity and corporate communications,
including the development and implementation of national publicity campaigns
for FOX series and specials as well as the execution of business and
strategic communications strategies on behalf of the network. He also
oversees the FOX Creative Services Department, which as FOX’s
internal corporate marketing, promotion, and special projects arm, produces
corporate print, multimedia, video, premiums programs and special event
projects for Fox Broadcasting Company and associated FOX and News
Corporation divisions.
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Christos “Stos” DeVaris
Design Director
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
CHANNEL
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As Design Director for the National Geographic Channel (NGC), Christos “Stos” DeVaris is responsible for the network’s overall graphic design
efforts. Stos works to ensure a consistent style across all NGC platforms
including programming, print, outdoor, and on-air promotion. He oversees
all work handled by an internal staff of NGC designers as well as outside
agencies, making sure all graphics are consistent with NGC’s re-branding
initiative “Dare To Explore.” DeVaris comes to NGC from The Food
Network, where he served for three years as director, on-air design,
creative services. He led the network through a brand redesign process and
oversaw all on-air graphic needs for marketing and affiliate sales. From
2000-2001, DeVaris designed and animated on-air promos and interstitials as
the senior designer, creative services for Oxygen. From 1998-1999, he
was a digital animation coordinator for MTV Animation and an animator
for Nick Digital/Nickelodeon. DeVaris has also designed and animated
graphics packages for TLC and ESPN. He has won two ProMax
Awards and a BDA Award.
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Daniel Lim
Creative Director
WIEDEN+KENNEDY - Shanghai
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Wieden + Kennedy is an
independent, creatively led advertising agency with offices in New York,
Portland, Amsterdam, London, Tokyo and Shanghai. Specializing in that
intersection between product, consumer and business. Award winning campaigns
include NIKE, ESPN Coca Cola and HONDA.
Wieden + Kennedy was created to be a different type of agency: one where
people come to do the best work of their careers. Daniel Lim is Creative
Director at Wieden+Kennedy -Shanghai.
NY ARTS
MAGAZINE - New York
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Available monthly at over 2,000
locations, NY Arts Magazine is the fastest growing arts magazine in
the US. Distributed to galleries, curators, collectors, dealers,
museums, art schools, art fairs, corporations, foundations, art
patrons and to over 800 private Manhattan galleries, this
prestigious international publication has a monthly readership of
65,000.
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Jessica Hoffman
Senior Art
Producer
CRISPIN PORTER + BOGUSKY - Miami
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Jessica Hoffman joined Crispin Porter + Bogusky's Art Buying
Department in 2000 as one of the agencies first hires. Since that time she
has played a significant role in growing and shaping how art buying is done
at the agency. Jessica has worked with many of CP+B's top clients over the
years including Bell, Giro, Shimano, Burger King, Virgin Atlantic,
Gap, Ikea, American Legacy Foundation, Mini, and Molson. Jessica
began her career in production working for photographer's Jim
Erickson and Jimmy Williams. She contributes to
many industry related articles including PDN,
Creativity, Shots and Shutterbug.
Jessica wrote the photography syllabus for the Miami Ad School.
André Rouillé is director of the
vibrant French art portal Paris Art, dedicated to covering (almost)
all the contemporary art in Paris. Although focused on
events taking place in Paris, the Paris-art.com database contains
international references, with over 9,500 images, 2,500 artists,
and 10,000 articles, announcements, bibliographies, interviews,
etc.
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Werner Krainz
Chief Creative Officer
PUBLICIS - Frankfurt GmbH
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Publicis
Germany began more than 40 years ago with a small agency in Frankfurt. Today
the Publicis Group is the third biggest agency in Germany and one of the
leading networks worldwide. Recent award winning campaigns include
QANTAS "One-Way," Gold Award at Comprix 2005 for
Proctor & Gamble "Speed of Hankerchiefs," Distinctive Merit at
ADC New York for Renault Nissan "Tree,"
Industry Winner at Yearbook of the Advertisement for
"Nuernberger Church Municipalities," and DEKA
Marketing Award for Savings Bank Berlin "Structured
Plants." Werner Krainz is the talented CCO who leads the creative department
at this prestigious German Agency.
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Nicole Frankel
Senior Picture Editor
VOGUE.COM UK
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The world's most important and influential magazine brand,
Vogue stands alone as "The" fashion Bible. No other magazine
combines beauty, style, glamour, design, fashion and contemporary
culture in such an inspiring mix. If it's in Vogue, it's in vogue.
The Channel 4 art
collection consists of works by emerging artists
including Mark Titchner, Michael Fullerton and Shez
Dawood. Channel 4 works with well-known artists to
identify the most interesting new talent to show
within Channel 4. Each artist recommends a few young
artists whose work is exhibited on loan in the
Channel 4 building. At the end of a three month
term, Channel 4 staff get a chance to vote which
works they would like to buy to add to the permanent
collection. Channel 4 has a valued reputation for
challenging programmes that explore contemporary
arts across a wide range of forms. ART4 brings
that spirit right to the heart of the Corporation's
daily life, helping create a working environment
that reacts and refreshes what we do, while
supporting new artists and, in the longer term,
bringing the best of new contemporary art to a wider
public in galleries across the country.
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Yuki Miyasaka
Publicity Asia
PHAIDON PUBLISHING
GROUP - Tokyo
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Phaidon Press is an international
publisher of books on the visual arts with offices in New York,
London, Paris and Berlin, and distributors worldwide. The company was
founded in Vienna in 1923 by Dr. Bela Horowiz and Ludwig Goldscheider
and named after "Phaedo", Socrates' pupil who spoke on the immortality
of the soul. Phaidon's large format art books first emerged in 1936 with
high-quality plates on Van Gogh, Botticelli, and the French
Impressionists. In 1995, Phaidon published the 16th edition of The
Story of Art which has sold over six million copies to
date and been translated into more than 30 languages. Today
Phaidon books are recognized worldwide for the highest quality of
content, design, and production and continue to be so innovative and
beautiful that as Nigel Spivy points out in his fuller account of
Phaidon's history, "a readership is rightly disposed to buy a Phaidon
book for no other reason than that Phaidon has produced it".
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Enrico Bossan
Director
COLORS MAGAZINE, THE BENETTON
GROUP - Italy |
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On sale in 40
countries, 3 editions, published in 4
languages, an Internet site that has won a record number of hits
and critical acclaim: COLORS is a quarterly magazine that
talks to young people all around the world. Established in
1991, from an idea of Luciano Benetton and Oliviero
Toscani, under the direction of Tibor Kalman, with
the premise that diversity is positive but that all cultures have equal
value. Pictures are, above all else, COLORS' expressive medium: a method
that is universal and reaches the greatest number of people with a strong,
immediate impact. Over the years COLORS has become a unique
point of reference in the global publishing world. It has
stirred public attention to topics and themes originating in areas of the
world that other publications seldom write about with depth and
freshness.
STILLS GALLERY - Australia
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STILLS is a leading Australian gallery
with a focus on contemporary photography and
multimedia art. The gallery, established in 1991,
is housed in a converted warehouse with a large exhibition
and print room space in Paddington, Sydney's main
gallery precinct. STILLS represents both emerging and
established artists, and has a long history of fostering artists who
work at the forefront of contemporary photo media practice. The
gallery’s annual program consists of nine exhibitions.
STILLS also organizes artist talks throughout the
year to promote discussion and understanding of the exhibited work.
STILLS is a member of the Australian
Commercial Gallery Association (ACGA), and has regularly
collaborated with Australian and international public
galleries on touring exhibitions. These have included "Photographica
Australis", exhibited at ARCO Madrid
and touring throughout Asia, "Rencontres d'Arles",
touring through Europe and "Shimai - Sisters" touring in Japan and
Australia.
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David Meikle
Managing Director
PROPAGANDA OGILVY - Moscow
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David Meikle joined
international advertising agency Ogilvy and Mather's Moscow
office after a merger with Russian counterpart Propaganda
in a bid to strengthen its position in the Russian ad market. The Ogilvy
name is synonymous with some of the most enduring advertising photography of
our time including classic campaigns for Rolls Royce,
Marlboro, Schweppes, Guinness, Hathaway and Sears . A new
block of commercials produced by the Propaganda Ogilvy Agency for
Unilever continues the main communication of the brand with a TV
advertising campaign for Dove soap. The campaign will
be maintained shortly in Russian press.
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Sylvia Farago
Photographic Director
DAZED & CONFUSED - London |
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World beating fashion, brilliant
photography and illustration, unrivalled music and film coverage,
headline grabbing events, distribution in over 40 countries
and admirers and imitators across the globe - Dazed & Confused has come a
long way since it's first faltering steps in the early 90s. Today, the group
can boast a book publishing division responsible for
numerous acclaimed photographic books and a production
company Dazed Film & TV. Still 100 per cent independent in
ownership and in spirit, Dazed & Confused is perhaps the
most influential monthly magazine in the world. Far from resting on its
reputation, Dazed & Confused is assisting the next wave of talented
contributors to seek out the fresh new music, fashion, film, art,
literature, ideas, imagery and opinions and deliver them to a new
generation of switched-on, intelligent, aware and
influential individuals.
Isidra Delfino
Director
Diego Silva
Director
Alvaro Diaz
Director
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525 ART is a contemporary art
gallery that exhibits and sells
original artworks and photography on the
Internet. Its website is a proprietary and friendly tool to
buy original art online. From photography,
painting, drawing, sculpture, graphic art works, video-art
to assemblages and
installations
their catalogue shows a careful balance between languages
and techniques, adequate to contemporary visual art. 525 ART
showcases the finest artists and the best
of new upcoming talent and attempts to
leave aside the distinction between fine and minor arts,
established and emerging artists and aims to go
beyond the borders in contemporary art.
FOTOGRAFISK CENTER
- Copenhagen
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Fotografisk Center, established 1996, is an
independent organization, located in
Kunstforeningen’s renowned building
on Gammel Strand in the very heart of
Copenhagen. An emphasis on both classic and
contemporary artists of both Danish and
international origin include Yoko Ono, Man
Ray, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Gisèle Freund, Alfred
Guzzetti, Josef Koudelka, Henri Lartique, Sally
Mann, Duane Michals, Inge Morath, Georg Oddner,
Viggo Rivad, Christer Strömholm, Lars Tunbjörk
and Bruce Gilden. Adjacent
to the gallery, the Center has a well stocked
bookstore that specializes in photography. The store
features major international publications,
limited edition artists books as well as
more than 20 in-house publications that accompany
exhibitions. Mr Lars Schwander is
also artistic
advisor for the Hasselblad Center, Göteborg,
Sweden.
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William A. Ewing
Director
MUSEE DE
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Musée de l'Elysée is located
in Lausanne, Switzerland
and was founded in 1985 by Charles-Henri Favrod.
It has eight showrooms distributed on four
stages, a bookstore and a room of
reading and collections of more than
100,000 works. By undertaking important research
tasks, various collaborations with the universities
and other institutions, the museum has
acquired many works of contemporary photographers and earned
an international reputation for presenting
historical exposures of themes and retrospectives by
famous photographers as well as young
contemporary talents.
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Dr.
Bert Hoveling
President
AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY – Australia |
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The Australian Photographic Society (APS) has a membership
of 2,000 professional and amateur photographers. Dr. Bert
Hoveling was Chairman of APSCON 2006, the annual APS
National Photographic Convention and also the immediate past President of
the “VIGEX International Salon of Photography” which
receives about 2,000 images every two years from over 30 countries. His
personal photographic interests range from large format darkroom
and digital images to modern travel and creative digital images. In
2005 he was listed in the top ten overseas photographers of the “PSA Who’s
Who” photo travel prints listing and is also listed in the photojournalism
category listing.
Jason Toh
Assistant Curator/Head of Photography
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF
SINGAPORE
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Jason Toh is the Assistant Curator
and heads the
photography department at the National Museum of Singapore, Singapore's
oldest museum. Distinguishing itself through vibrant festivals and events,
the Museum's programs unleash new creative possibilities in culture and
heritage. Designed to be the people's museum, the museum prides itself on
introducing cutting edge and varied ways of presenting history to redefine
the conventional museum experience. With a rich history dating back to 1881,
the National Museum building was officially re-opened December 7th, 2006
after a 3 year redevelopment program.
Benjamin Trigano
Gallery Owner
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M+B exhibits contemporary
photography by established, mid-career and emerging artists.
Since it’s opening in the Summer 2004 by owner Benjamin Trigano, the
gallery has continued to bring the Los Angeles art scene
exciting and provocative shows that challenge the notion of the
typical gallery. One of M+B’s primary goals is to bring about a fresh
excitement for photography to both avid collectors and
those who are just beginning. To do this, M+B focuses on artists whose
work involves social and cultural documentation and
innovative, contemporary work.
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Meg Maggio
Director
PEKIN FINE ARTS - BEIJING
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Pekin Fine Arts is a
Beijing-based private consultancy and art gallery
established by Meg Maggio in November 2005. Ms. Maggio is a 20-year
China resident, arts writer, curator and director of Pekin Fine Arts
gallery in Beijing. Ms. Maggio acts as advisor to leading museums,
corporations and individuals on collecting and exhibiting contemporary
art. With over 600 square meters of exhibition space
designed by Beijing-based artist/architect Ai Weiwei, Pekin Fine Arts
strives to represent and to promote the best and most
innovative contemporary artists
from Asia. In addition to hosting a
wide range of gallery exhibitions in the Beijing gallery, Pekin Fine
Arts plays an important role in promoting Asian artists internationally.
Artists represented by Pekin Fine Arts have had exhibitions and/or works
collected by art institutions such as Mori Art Museum,
Victoria and Albert Museum, Musee Pompidou, MOMA - NYC, Boston Museum of
Fine Arts, JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, Venice Biennale, Arles, UBS
Art Collection and Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Lothar Albrecht
Founder
L.A. GALERIE -
Frankfurt & Beijing
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Lothar Albrecht established
L.A. Galerie in 1990 as a showcase for international contemporary art. In
fifteen years of progressive art mediation, the gallery has built a strong
reputation for "discovering" new talents and
exhibiting the finest contemporary
photography. The list of international
artists reflects the international program of the gallery. Collaborating
with emerging artists and established photographers, L.A. Galerie has
organized and sponsored many of artist's catalogues and exhibitions.
Following the continued success of the Frankfurt based gallery, L.A. Galerie
Beijing was opened 2003 and continues to be active in China where the
gallery exhibits international and young Chinese artists. The gallery works
with private collectors, art institutions and attends art fairs around the
world from Miami to Madrid.
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Rick Kemp
Vice
President, Executive Creative Director
GREY
WORLDWIDE CANADA - Toronto
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Rick Kemp brings a wealth of
experience working with some of the industry's biggest clients such as
Unilever, Nestle, Diageo, Kraft and
Kellogg's. Ideas are king - and his
media-neutral approach ensures that clients get breakthrough solutions to
all their communication needs. Rick believes famous brands deserve nothing
less than famous advertising and has spent his career in pursuit of that. He
has won awards at major national and international shows, including Cannes,
One Show, Communication Arts, NY Festival, Clios Marketing, and the Cassies.
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Hans
Tapper
Founder
TAPPER-POPERMAJER ART GALLERY - Malmo, Sweden
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The Tapper-Popermajer Art
Gallery has emerged as one of the most respected and trusted contemporary
art galleries in the dynamic Oeresund
region of Sweden. Through active dialogue
with private clients who seek investments and collector's items, to
companies wishing to convey a distinct message through their display of
fine-art objects, the gallery has built a strong reputation. By
attending major art fairs and
through joint collaborations with a large body of artists, respected art
galleries and institutions, the Tapper-Popermajer
Art Gallery has promoted some of the
finest talent in contemporary art. The comprehensive exhibition range
includes international art
collections, photography, sculpture, painting, graphics,
and other forms of artistic expression. Every year in addition to the
permanent collections of the gallery, ten to twelve larger exhibitions are
presented, showing works of the
avant-garde and upcoming younger artists.
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Katrina Foxe
Marketing Manager
WEBER SHANDWICK - Sydney
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Weber Shandwick
maintains the largest public relations network in the world - measured both
in terms of number of employees and geographical coverage with more than
100 offices in 65 countries. Clients include Best
Buy, MASTERCARD, H&R Block, Honeywell and the Internal
Revenue Service. Katrina Foxe is the Marketing Service Manager for
Weber Shandwick in the Asia Pacific region, directly coordinating all
multi-country initiatives and providing counsel for local level activity.
Previously Katrina worked in London at MORI, the UK's
largest market research organization as a designer, creating publication
advertisements. Weber Shandwick relies on a clear focus and the
finest talent in the industry to produce memorable public
relations, earning the agency - PRWeek Agency of the Year 2005.
Anne Sophie Hardinger
Editor
WONDERLAND
MAGAZINE - Denmark
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Wonderland is a Danish magazine
on contemporary art and design. Based on the sheer love of
visual creativity, Wonderland was founded in the summer of
2005, by former students of the Graphic Arts Institute of
Copenhagen. Since then Wonderland has served as a platform for
established as well as upcoming artists who exhibit their artwork in
Wonderland’s section called Uncensored Creative Outburst.
With its high quality in production and design, combined with the fact
that the magazine is distributed for free, Wonderland has quickly become
a pioneer in the Danish publishing industry. Wonderland
back issues are already becoming collectors’ items and Wonderland issue
#2 was nominated for best publication at the Papyrus Award 2006.
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Xavier
Canonne
Director
MUSEE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE -
Bruxelles, Belgium
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