Rankin is a major artist. His recent photographs cover a particularly wide span, from a portrait of Tony Blair for The Financial Times and a series of nude portraits of people who responded to a little ad in Time Out, to a portrait of George Clooney for The Guardian Magazine. Rankin is also one of the ten photographers chosen to shoot a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee. This photograph is currently on display at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
A director of music videos and feature films, the founder of three magazines and the artist behind numerous advertising and humanitarian campaigns, Rankin is above all a fashion photographer. The cofounder of Dazed & Confused, he has worked with the French magazine Citizen K, and shot campaigns for Kookaï, Morgan, Guinness, Hugo Boss, Nokia and BMW. He was at the heart of the English pop explosion in the 1990s, and belongs to the movement that includes Katie Grand, Katie England and Alexander McQueen.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1966, John Rankin Waddell grew up in St. Albans in Hertfordshire. After being expelled from school, he quickly abandoned his studies in accounting to move to Peckham and study photography in London.
EXHIBITION
A little more Rankin
February 24 – April 19, 2014
A-Galerie
4 rue Léonce Reynaud
75016 Paris
France
