Rankin (photographer)

John Rankin Waddell (born 28 April 1966), known mononymously as Rankin, is a British photographer and director who co-founded Dazed & Confused magazine. He is known for his photography of models including Kate Moss and Heidi Klum, and of celebrities such as Madonna, David Bowie and Elizabeth II. His work has appeared in magazines including GQ, Vogue and Marie Claire.

Rankin
Rankin in 2021
Born
John Rankin Waddell

(1966-04-28) April 28, 1966
Glasgow, Scotland
Alma materUniversity of the Arts London
OccupationPhotographer
Spouse(s)
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    (m. 1995; div. 1998)​
      Tuuli Shipster
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      (m. 2009)​
      Children1
      Websiterankinphoto.co.uk

      Early life

      Rankin was born then brought up in Glasgow until his family moved to Yorkshire where he attended Thirsk School and Sixth Form College before relocating to St Albans and attending Beaumont School.

      Career

      While studying accounting at Brighton Polytechnic, he realised his interests lay elsewhere and dropped out, taking up photography at Barnfield College in Luton on the BTEC Photography course, and then at the London College of Printing (now known as the London College of Communication) on the BA Photography course. During this time, Rankin met journalism student Jefferson Hack, with whom he formed a working relationship. They established a University of London student union magazine called Untitled.

      They then started their own company, also named Untitled, in collaboration with the graphic designer Ian C Taylor. In 1991 they launched the magazine Dazed & Confused,[1] which has since evolved into Dazed Media.[2]

      In December 2000 Rankin launched his own quarterly fashion magazine, Rank. He also publishes AnOther Magazine, AnOther Man and in 2011 founded Hunger, a biannual fashion, culture and lifestyle magazine[3] and the associated Hunger TV website – a video-based digital platform.[4]

      In 2002 he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Photographic Society.[5] He also co-directed his debut feature film The Lives of Saints,[6] written by Toni Grisoni which won the Grand Jury prize at the Salento International Film Festival.

      He was involved with the television reality show Britain's Missing Top Model in 2008.[7] The show followed eight young women with disabilities who competed for a modelling contract, including a photo shoot with Rankin and a cover picture for Marie Claire.

      In April 2009 Rankin created Annroy (an amalgamation of his parents names), a contemporary structure designed by Trevor Horne Architects that is home to his own photographic studio, gallery and penthouse space.[8]

      For seven weeks in 2009 with his Rankin Live project he photographed people straight off the street, completing one shoot every 15 minutes, with the portraits printed and hung within 30 minutes. He finally photographed 8,000 to 10,000 people for the project, with each subject getting a print of their portrait to take away.[9]

      In 2010 Rankin travelled to South Africa with the BBC to shoot the documentary South Africa in Pictures.[10] The same year, he was commissioned by Nike and Product Red in the fight against HIV/AIDS, to shoot a global Nike campaign, Lace Up, Save Lives, to raise awareness about the disease.[11]

      In 2011 he served as the photography teacher in the Channel 4 series Jamie's Dream School featuring Jamie Oliver.[12] He also presented the BBC Four documentary America in Pictures – The Story of Life Magazine.[13] He launched Rankin Film Productions to produce and direct his own commercial and editorial film work.

      In January 2014, BBC Four broadcast his documentary Seven Photographs that Changed Fashion, in which he created tributes to images by Cecil Beaton, Erwin Blumenfeld, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, David Bailey and Guy Bourdin. He interviewed an array of original photographers, models and assistants, and used contemporary models including Heidi Klum, Erin O'Connor, Jade Parfitt, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Tuuli Shipster, Mollie Gondi, Daphne Guinness and David Gandy.[14]

      He has been a regular collaborator as a photographer and guest judge on Germany's Next Topmodel.[15]

      Rankin has donated his services to publicity campaigns for the charity Women's Aid, providing photographs for its Blind Eye,[16] What's it going to take? and Valentine's Day[17] campaigns.

      In 2019 he designed a digital philanthropy card in collaboration with Phil Ropy for Surfrider Foundation Europe.[18] The card features the environmental non-profit organisation which has been fighting to protect and preserve the ocean since 1990. He created a Plastic Monster made of plastic waste for the card, as a metaphor for plastic pollution. The cards' proceeds were redistributed to the organization.[19]

      In 2021 he hosted the Great British Photography Challenge on BBC4,[20] worked with The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust as a celebrity judge for the Light Up The Darkness competition,[21] and collaborated with conceptual artists Scott Kelly and Ben Polkinghorne to create images to challenge traditional concepts of male baldness through a series of portraits of men with striking headwear that was published in Hunger.[22]

      Personal life

      Rankin was married to actress Kate Hardie from 1995 to 1998. Since 2009, he has been married to model and yoga teacher Tuuli Shipster.[23][24][25][26][27][28]

      Major exhibitions

      · ‘Dead Fashionable’ Barbican, London 1997

      · ‘London Imperfect Beauty’ Victoria & Albert Museum, London 2001

      · ‘Golden Jubilee Portfolio’ National Portrait Gallery 2002

      · ‘Dazed & Confused vs. Warhol’ Baltic, Gateshead 2007

      · ‘Visually Hungry’ Poeba Gallery, Moscow 2008

      · ‘Retrospective & Rankin Live’ Truman Brewery, London 2009

      · ‘Destroy’ Phillips De Pury & Company, London 2009

      · ‘A Positive View’ Somerset House, London 2010

      · ‘OPEN’ Milk, New York 2011

      · ‘Show Off’ NRW Forum, Dusseldorf 2012

      · ‘Visually Hungry’ Wuhan Art Museum, China 2012

      · ‘Contains Nudity’ Other Criteria, London 2012

      · ‘Alive in the Face of Death’ Walker Gallery, Liverpool 2014

      · ‘Selling Dreams’ Victoria & Albert Museum, London 2014

      · ‘Less is More’ Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany 2015

      · ‘Bond’ National Portrait Gallery, London 2015

      · ‘It’s Glam Up North’ Museum of Liverpool 2015

      · ‘Bjork’ Museum of Modern Art, New York 2015

      · ‘Light Up the Room’ Southbank Center, London 2016

      · ‘Bling Bling Baby’ NRW Forum, Dusseldorf 2016

      · ‘Outside In’ Camparu Fashion Avenue, Milan 2016

      · ‘Naked’ Kunsthuis Amsterdam 2017

      · ‘Rankin’ Camera Work Contemporary Gallery, Berlin 2017

      · ‘From Portraiture To Fashion’ 29 Arts In Progress Gallery, Milan 2019

      Documentaries

      · Rankin’s Male Nudes 2001

      · Seven Photographs that Changed Fashion 2009

      · South Africa in Pictures 2010

      · Shooting the Hollywood Stars 2011

      · Jamie’s Dream School 2011

      · Alive in the Face of Death 2013

      · America in Pictures: The Story of Life Magazine 2013

      · The Culture Show: Rankin Shoots Rembrandt 2014

      · Rankin Presents: Collabor8te (TV documentary series) 2014

      · No Body’s Perfect: with Rankin and Alison Lapper 2016

      · Fishermen to Kings: The Forgotten Portraits of Olive Edis 2017

      · Rankin’s 2020 2020

      · Great British Photography Challenge 2021

      Publications
      • Hello Sexy & Welcome (1995)
      • Rankin Photographs (1998)
      • Rankin Female Nudes (1999)
      • Rankinworks (2000)
      • Snog (2000)
      • Celebration (2000)
      • Rankin Male Nudes (2001)
      • Sofasexy: Turning a Cheap Sofa into an Object of Desire (2002)
      • Breeding: A Study of Sexual Ambiguity (2004)
      • Rankin / Bailey (2003)
      • Rankin's Portraits (2004)
      • Fashion Stories (2004)
      • Surface Seduction (2005)
      • The Hard Sell (2005)
      • Breast Friends (2006)
      • Tuulitastic (2006)
      • Beautyfull (2007)
      • Visually Hungry (2007)
      • Sold Out (2009)
      • Ranked (2009)
      • Surface Attraction (2009)
      • Rankin's Cheeky (2009)
      • Heidilicious (2009)
      • Destroy (2009)
      • A Photographic Essay of the Macallan Estate (2009)
      • Alex Box (2009)
      • Oxfam - We are Congo (2010)
      • Rankin Jozi (2010)
      • Rankin Portraits (2010)
      • Painting Pretty Pictures (2010)
      • Couture In The 21st Century (2010)
      • Rankin Live Women (2010)
      • Ten Times Rosie (2010)
      • Open Exhibition Catalogue (2011)
      • Myths, Monsters & Legends (2011)
      • Dazed & Confused Making It Up As We Go Along (2011)
      • Ayami Nishimura by Rankin (2012)
      • Rankin Portraits (2012)
      • Spirit of Ecstasy (2012)
      • Caroline Saulnier by Rankin (2012)
      • More by Rankin (2013)
      • Alive: In the Face of Death (2014)
      • F*CK Y*U (2014)
      • Andrew Gallimore (2014)
      • Blood, Sweat & Bond (2015)
      • For Queen and Country (2016)
      • Hunger The Book (2016)
      • #NSFW (2016)
      • Heidi Klum By Rankin (2017)
      • Unfashionable: 30 Years of Fashion Photography (2019)
      • Creative Influence (2019)
      • Marco x Rankin (2019)
      • Let's Reset (2019)
      • Embrace (2020)
      • Rankin's 2020 (2020)
      • Play (2020)

      Short films
      • 'Amazing' Bronson test shoot with Tom Hardy (2006) – as co-director
      • 'Desert Girls' (2009) – as co-director
      • 'Maybe One Day' (2009) – as co-director
      • 'Model, Actress, Whatever' (2001)
      • 'Perfect' (2003)
      • 'Rachael' (2012)
      • 'Hardwire' (2013)
      • 'Balance' (2014)

      Music videos

      Commercials

      • Swatch ‘Full Blooded’ (2011)

      • Action Aid ‘Get Lippy’ (2011)

      • Thomas Wylde ‘Snake Bite’ (ft. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) (2011)

      • Lascivious (featuring Tuuli Shipman) (2011)

      • Braun (featuring Jose Mourinio) (2011)

      • Rolls Royce - 'Spirit of Ecstasy' (2011)

      • Sightsavers (featuring James Corden) (2012)

      • Weightwatchers (featuring Patsy Kensit) (2012)

      • Tresemme Clear (featuring Heidi Klum) (2012)

      • Stormflower' (featuring Cheryl Cole) (2013)

      • Abarth 124 'Spider' (2013)

      • Coco Rocha ‘Cavalli’ for Hunger Magazine (2013)

      • Beats (Featuring Naomi Campbell) (2013)

      • Astor ‘Lift Me Up’ (featuring Heidi Klum) (2013)

      • Astor Stimulash (featuring Heidi Klum) (2013)

      • Bodyshop ‘Beauty With Heart’ (2013)

      • FCUK 'From Sketch to Store' (2013)

      • Missoni 'A Zig Without a Zag' (2013)

      • Volt ‘Trompe L'oeil’ (2013)

      • L'Oréal Paris ‘Mis-match’ (featuring Cheryl Cole) (2013)

      • Prada 'Dorothy' (2013)

      • G-Star Raw 'Destroy to Construct' (2013)

      • Louis Vuitton ‘The Exchange’ (2013)

      • Joe Fresh 'Selfie Harm' (2014)

      • Toni & Guy ‘How to Casual’ (2014)

      • Dr Scholls (ft. Heidi Klum) 'Tame the Shoe' (2014)

      • Comic Relief Red Nose Day (featuring Lily Allen) (2015)

      • Coco de Mer 'Project X' (2015)

      • Louis Vuitton 'These Four Walls' (2015)

      • Nike CR7 (featuring Cristiano Ronaldo) (2015)

      • Equinox 'Made Me Do It' (2015)

      • Hunger TV (featuring Zendaya) (2015)

      • G-Star ‘Destroy to Construct’ (2015)

      • Stephen Webster Jewellery (2015)

      • Batiste featuring Pixie Lott) ‘Red Carpet Glam’ (2015)

      • British Fashion Council Fashion Awards (2016)

      • Love Magazine (featuring Bella Hadid) (2016)

      • Make Up Forever (featuring Jessie J) (2016)

      • Heidi Klum Swimwear (2016)

      • Lidl (featuring Heidi Klum) (2016)

      • Love Magazine (featuring Heidi Klum) (2016)

      • Belstaff 'Worship the Ground' (2016)

      • Armani 'Dusk Til Dawn' (2016)

      • Jitrois AW16 'Look Once Look Twice' (2016)

      • Samsonite 'The Serious Traveller' (2016)

      • Mercedes AMG Focus (2016)

      • Make Up Forever (featuring Charli XCX) (2016)

      • Dazed & Confused (featuring Gigi Hadid) (2016)

      • Geox 'Start Breathing' (2016)

      • S&X Perfume (2016)

      • Macy’s ‘Happy Birthday’ (featuring Heidi Klum) (2016)

      • Women’s Aid ‘What’s It Going To Take?’ (2016)

      • Triumph SS17 (featuring Liv Tyler) (2017)

      • Snickers 'April Fools' - Cancer Awareness Week (2017)

      • Chanel 'La Chaise Ironique' (2017)

      • Love Magazine (featuring The Muppets) (2017)

      • Love Magazine (featuring Rita Ora) (2017)

      • Love Magazine (featuring Kendall Jenner) (2017)

      • Love Magazine (featuring Chrissy Teigen) (2017)

      • Lidl (featuring Heidi Klum) 'Let's Wow' (2017)

      • Huawei 'Manifesto' (2017)

      • Coco De Mer '12 Days of Christmas' (2017)

      • CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) (2017)

      • Aston Martin 'Beautiful Won’t Be Tamed' (2017)

      • Make Up Forever 'Aqua' (featuring Kehlani) (2017)

      • Vidal Sassoon 'Cloud Kiss' (2017)

      • Godiva 'Masterpieces' (2017)

      • Calm (featuring Chris Hughes & Topman) (2017)

      • Make Up Forever 'Artist Shadow' (2017)

      • Love Advent (featuring Charli XCX) (2017)

      • Snowman - 'Climate Coalition' (2017)

      • Unicef 'Do You Believe?' (2017)

      • Macmillan 'Brave the Shave' (2017)

      • Love Magazine (featuring Charli XCX) (2018)

      • Triumph AW18 (Featuring Liv Tyler) (2018)

      • Triumph (Featuring Julianne Moore) (2018)

      • Triumph (featuring Julianne Moore) (2018)

      • Triumph (featuring Liv Tyler) (2018)

      • QVC ‘We Just Clicked’ (2018)

      • Samsonite ‘Generation Go’ (2018)

      • Avon ‘Tattoo’ (2018)

      • Anti Hair Campaign (2019)

      • Avon Fragrance Spring (2019)

      • Flik Flak FW19 Campaign (2019)

      • Rolls Royce ‘The End’ (2019)

      • Police (ft. Lewis Hamilton SS20 Campaign) (2019)

      • Schweppes ‘Not Just a G&T’ (2019)

      • Harrods Biker Black (ft. Suki Waterhouse) (2019)

      • Avon Spring Campaign (2020)

      Awards
      • Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society (2002)[29]
      • Hall of Fame - WGSN Global Fashion Awards (2012)
      • Coco De Mere Project X – Honourable Mention Fashion Category – Miami Fashion Film Festival (2015)
      • Nominated Best Director – London Fashion Film Festival (2015)[30]
      • Nominated Best Direction – Berlin Fashion Film Festival (2015)
      • Bronze Pencil Award for Direction – The One Club for Creativity (2016)
      • Lifetime Achievement Award - Mercedes-Benz Bokeh Fashion Film Festival (2016)[31][32]
      • British Photography Awards Fellowship (2019)[33]

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