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Legends of photography to grace NewSchool 2005
MUMBAI: Stalwarts who have created some of the world’s most path-breaking and award-winning advertising campaigns and are regarded as the institutions of modern photography will be gracing NewSchool 2005, Asia’s foremost photography seminar organised by the Photographers’ Guild of India in Mumbai.
The fourth photographic workshop will see the living legends of photography David Zimmerman, Joyce Tenneson, Jay Maisel, Gregory Heisler, Max Vadukul, and Sanjay Kothari during 17-21 February 2005 at the Hyatt Regency, Sahar.
These are the masters whose works have enhanced some of the world’s best known brands, adorned pages of many international magazines and have had TV audiences sit up and take note. While David Zimmerman has among his client list Nike, AT&T, Mercedes Benz, Heineken and IBM, Max Vadukul’s provocative and avant garde photographs have led to partnerships with Chloe, Emanuel Ungaro, Armani, Max Mara, Comte des Garcons, Express, Victoria’s Secret, BCBG and most recently HBO’s Six Feet Under’
Sanjay Kothari’s recent work has been for Businessweek, Time Warner and ESPN. His client list reads like a virtual who’s-who of imaging – The Workbook, Digitas, Ogilvy & Mather, FCB, Saatchi, Grey Advertising, Kodak, Adobe, Time Inc., Fortune Magazine, Newsweek, New York Times magazine, Source magazine. Joyce Tenneson is among the most respected photographers of our time and her work has been shown in over 150 exhibitions worldwide, and is part of numerous private and museum collections. A recent poll conducted by American Photo Magazine voted Tenneson among the ten most influential women in the history of photography, informs an official release.
Jay Maisel is the acknowledged doyen of photography. He has worked with the top most advertising agencies and major US and international campaigns. Gregory Heisler has the enviable credit of over 50 TIME covers and essays for Life, Sports Ilustrated, Gentlemen’s Quarterly (GQ), Esquire, Espn, House & Garden and the New York Times Magazine. He has photographed the award winning “Dewar’s Profiles” advertising campaign as well as those for Benson & Hedges, Nike, Merrill Lynch, Bell Atlantic, and American Express.
During the five-day extravaganza these specialists will take the audiences into the realms that exist between pure photography and digital imaging. Thought processes that have emitted images that have become milestones in advertising. From these experts one will hear the truth of how they are inspired, they think and how they work time after time to produce such incredible images. A never before opportunity to be with the institutions of modern photography.
Organised by the Photographers’ Guild of India (PGI), NewSchool is a unique initiative, conceptualized with the intention of spreading awareness of path-breaking images that set the high standards of photography worldwide. International icons from the photographic industry share their knowledge and enlighten professional photographers, creative directors, students and other concerned bodies of the trade alike, thus creating a meeting of minds like none other. Over time, NewSchool programs have been graced by the presence of luminaries like David LaChappelle, Jay Silverman, Nadav Kander, Aaron Jones, Hans Neilmann, and Hediki Fuji, to name a few. Started almost two decades ago, in the past, NewSchool has also traveled to cities such as Bangalore and New Delhi.
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Abhay Duggal joins JioStar as director of Hindi GEC ad sales
The streaming giant brings in a seasoned revenue hand as the battle for Hindi television advertising heats up
MUMBAI: Abhay Duggal has a new desk, and JioStar has a new weapon. The media and entertainment veteran has joined JioStar as director of entertainment ad sales for Hindi general entertainment channels, adding 17 years of hard-won revenue experience to one of India’s most powerful broadcasting operations.
Duggal is no stranger to big portfolios or bruising markets. Before joining JioStar, he spent a brief stint at Republic World as deputy general manager and north regional head for ad sales. Before that, he put in three years at Enterr10 Television, where he ran the north region for Dangal TV and Dangal 2, two of India’s leading free-to-air Hindi channels. The north alone accounted for more than 50 per cent of total channel revenue on his watch, a number that tends to get attention in any sales meeting.
His longest stint was at Zee Entertainment Enterprises, where he spent over six years rising to associate director of sales. There he commanded the Hindi movies cluster across seven channels, owned more than half of north India’s revenue across flagship properties including Zee TV and &TV, and closed marquee sponsorships across the Indian Premier League, Zee Rishtey Awards and Dance India Dance. He also handled monetisation for the English movies and entertainment cluster and the global news channel WION, a portfolio that would stretch most sales teams twice his size.
Earlier in his career Duggal closed what was then a Rs 3 crore single deal at Reliance Broadcast Network, one of the largest in Indian radio at the time, before that he helped launch and monetise JAINHITS, India’s first HITS-based cable and satellite platform.
His edge, by his own account, lies in marrying data and instinct: translating audience trends, inventory signals and client demands into long-term partnerships built on cost-per-rating-point discipline rather than short-term deal chasing. In a media landscape being reshaped by streaming, fragmented attention and AI-driven advertising, that kind of rigour is increasingly rare and increasingly valuable.
JioStar, which blends the scale of Reliance’s Jio platform with the content firepower of Star, is doubling down on its advertising business at precisely the moment the Hindi GEC market is getting more competitive. Bringing in someone who has spent nearly two decades doing exactly this, across some of India’s most watched channels, is a pointed statement of intent. Duggal has spent his career turning audiences into revenue. JioStar is clearly betting he can do it again, and bigger.
