Kensington Palace today released an official portrait of Prince George, taken by Getty Images’ Royal Photographer Chris Jackson. The photograph, which is intended to mark His Royal Highness’s fourth birthday, was taken at Kensington Palace at the end of June.

Jackson follows in the footsteps of esteemed photographers Cecil Beaton, Patrick Litchfield, Lord Snowdon and Mario Testino to author an official portrait of the Royal Family.

Jackson commented on authoring the image, “I’m thrilled and honoured that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have chosen to release this portrait to celebrate Prince George’s 4th Birthday. He is such a happy little boy and certainly injects some fun into a photoshoot!”

The image was distributed by the UK Press Association, a trusted partner of Getty Images and is available for licensing on gettyimages.com.

“Non Silent Film” campaign scoops up multiple Cannes Lions awards

 New York, Monday June 26, 2017 – Getty Images, a global leader in visual communication, in partnership with Brazilian agency AlmapBBDO, has been awarded multiple honours by the Cannes Lions jury. The “Non Silent Film” campaign, which seeks to show the depth of Getty Images’ extensive audio collection, gives voice to one of the greatest silent film classics “Nosferatu” (1922) with sound composed of thousands of Getty Images’ audio files.

Digital Craft – Gold Lion

Digital Craft – Bronze Lion

Outdoor – Bronze Lion

Promo & Activation – Silver Lion

Cyber – Silver Lion

Cyber – Silver Lion

During the 90-minute lengthy remake of the feature, characters emerge on scene with a voice from a fictional language, created by reversing speech files, composing a bleak language for Nosferatu and his victims. The production was performed by Punch Audio over eight weeks, including extensive research and collaboration from the teams of AlmapBBDO and Getty Images.

The site also includes a sound timeline of the production, and access to each file used in the film. In addition, posters inspired by the old posters of the film were recreated by AlmapBBDO, focusing on Nosferatu in its sonorized version.

“Winning several awards is testament to the leading creative work that AlmapBBDO and Getty Images are delivering. It is precisely this sort of creativity that helps us to stay top of mind with creatives,” said says Getty Images’ chief marketing officer, Gene Foca. “Our Premium Access subscription programs offer our creative partners the widest selection of content across imagery, video and audio. I can think of few ways to better showcase the wide-ranging capabilities of Getty Images than to transform this classic into a ‘new’ classic, with the help of Getty Images audio.”

Marcelo Nogueira, Creative Director from AlmapBBDO added, “We continue to enjoy our long-standing partnership with Getty Images. By utilizing their premium content – photos, videos, and audio – as the raw material for our work we continue to create innovative, award-winning campaigns. We plan to keep creating for a long, long time yet with the help of the depth and breadth of the Getty Images archive.”

Over the past eight years, Getty Images and AlmapBBDO have partnered to create award winning campaigns, such as “From Love to Bingo”, “85 Seconds” and,  last year’s “Millions of Images. Endless Possibilities” that scooped multiple awards at the 2016 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity.

Watch the trailer here and the full movie at www.nonsilentfilm.com.

Credits

Title: Nosferatu “The Non Silent Film”

Agency: AlmapBBDO

Client: Getty Images

Partner/ CCO: Luiz Sanches

Executive Creative Direction: Bruno Prosperi

Creative Direction: Andre Gola, Benjamin Yung Jr, Marcelo Nogueira, Pernil

Digital Creative Director: Luciana Haguiara

Digital Head of Art: Pedro Burneiko

Copywriter: Daniel Oksenberg, Rodrigo Resende

Art Director: Renato Butori, Hauck Araujo

Interface Design: Ingrid Bugarin

Audio: Getty Images

Audio Production: Punch Audio

Digital Production Company: Slickland

Illustration: Black Madre Atelier

Production house: Bossa Nova Animation

Agency producer: Vera Jacinto, Diego Villas Bôas and Léo Damasceno

Art Buyer: Teresa Setti e Stephanie Biekarck

Project Manager: Mayra Otsuka

Technology Director: Eduardo Bruschi

UX Designer: Caroline Kayatt

Planning: Cintia Gonçalves

Accounts: Ana Clara Grana, Beatriz Almonacid, Nathalia Chaves and Beatriz Sztamfater

Media: Luis Flavio Padilha, Cassiano Oliva and Natalia Furtado

Client Supervisors: Gene Foca, Paige McCrensky, Jennifer Ferguson, Kjelti Kellough, Elvira Cameriere and Natália Moraes

“You don’t want to be the face of something, you want to be the voice”

In a robust discussion, Lena Waithe and fellow speakers on Getty Images panel ‘Seeing is Believing: The Power of Re-picturing Stereotypes’ tell Cannes Lions delegates to hand over the reins and let people represent themselves

Cannes Lions delegates were given a lesson on diversity in a thought-provoking panel hosted by Getty Images in the Lumière Theatre this afternoon. Moderated by Pam Grossman, Director of Visual Trends at Getty Images, the panel saw Netflix actress and writer Lena Waithe join Piera Gelardi, Co-founder and Executive Creative Director at Refinery29 and photographers Campbell Addy and Braden Summers to discuss how the media and advertising industries can better visually represent the world’s diverse communities.

Seeing is Believing: The Power of Re-picturing Stereotypes, which took place at the Lumière Theatre at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, explored why imagery is so important when it comes to reframing concepts of gender, race, mental illness, LGBTQ and religion – altering perceptions, evoking empathy and helping brands engage with a broader audience.

Discussion points included:

• What diversity does and does not look like
• Why diversity and inclusion are so beneficial for businesses to partake in
• Why diverse voices at all levels of the creative process is just as important as picturing diversity in campaigns
• How storytelling about specific lived experiences can resonate globally with the mainstream

A selection of speaker comments are included below for your reference:

Lena Waithe:

• On what diversity should be: “It’s not about seeing people of colour on the screen, it’s about actually having substance. The material needs to have a lasting impact. We don’t want to just put black faces on the screen, otherwise the people at the top are just profiting from our culture…People of colour need to be behind-the-scenes too and not just used as props, to truly help change the scene.”
• On her work: “I have to be really black and really gay and if that makes you feel uncomfortable then great. Because eventually it won’t.”

Campbell Addy:

“I hate the talk of diversity as a trend that has emerged over the last few years – that makes me angry. This is my life –my 24 years. I’ve always been here, we’ve always existed.”

Braden Summers:

“When I first produced my images, it was the LGBT community that pushed back and gave a lot of criticism – they felt the images were too romantic. But my thinking was that if people saw the beauty – saw the romance – they’d be so taken by it they would forget they were looking at an image of a gay couple…and would instead have a positive association with romance. The more that becomes normal, the more people will become comfortable with it.”

Piera Gelardi:

“Diversity is not about altruism, it’s about good business sense.”

The panel session has been recorded and will be available to view on the Cannes Lions website in the coming weeks.