Wonga – Revisited
According to The Sun this morning – a 'new' craze is sweeping the internet. Not so….
8 years ago, our very own ECD Tony D and then head of planning, Russell Davies launched the 'Wonga' exhibition at Westbourne Studios in Notting Hill, in conjunction with the fantastic photographer Lesley Davies-Evans.
At the time, the march of the Euro was prevalent in everybody's minds – and got Tony and Russell thinking about money – about what it actually is, rather than what it can do. They dug out their unused foreign currency, studied the characterful strangers peering out at them and discovered a whole host of more familiar faces. And so the exhibition was born…. a lovely example of how just because something is 'the root of all evil', doesn't mean you can't have fun with it!
Here are some examples:
Eminem
Peter Sissons
Michael Douglas
Don King
Sigourney Weaver
Eric Cantona
Sid James