SCOTTISH STYLE AWARDS 2011 - GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
Judging Panel - Rankin
A photographer, publisher and most recently a film director, RANKIN brings a mischievous wit to whatever he does. His intimate portraits, distinctive fashion ad commercial work and groundbreaking art projects have marked him out as one the world’s leading image makers.
Recent work has varied from shooting Tony Blair for the Financial Times to a series of nudes featuring ordinary people who answered an advert in Time Out. He made headlines again last year with his campaign for Dove cosmetics showing women who differed from the usual stick-thin advertising stereotype.
Rankin was selected as one of ten photographers to shoot the Queen for her Golden Jubilee. The image was exhibited in Windsor Castle for the celebrations and is now in the National Portrait Gallery.
Not content with still images, he has turned his lens to filmmaking. The short film he directed for Film Four ‘Perfect’, was one of the few shorts shown at the Los Angeles, Raindance and Edinburgh film festivals. Commercial work has included adverts for Guinness, Rimmel and Elle McPherson’s underwear range Elle Intimates. He is currently working on his first feature film.
Rankin started Dazed & Confused magazine with Jefferson Hack in 1991, overseeing it’s rise as creative director. His photos and the magazines irreverent style ensured the rise of both in perfect symbiosis.
Rankin has recently completed a feature length film ‘The Lives of the Saints’. Financed by Dazed Film and TV and the Italian denim brand Meltin’ Pot, the film is a darkly comic morality take whereby fantastical events take place in the ordinary surroundings of modern-day North London. The feature will be on release in 2006.
He lives in London and has a nine-year old son, Lyle.