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Rankin

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© 2012

ADIDAS AG. ADIDAS AND THE GLOBE ARE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OF THE ADIDAS GROUP.

Editor: José Manuel Bejarano_

Director: Isidre Estévez_

Editor gráfico y maquetación: Óscar ferrer_

Jefe de Redacción_Rubén Romero._

Redacción: Jordi Muro_

Sílvia Micolau_

Colaboradores: Adrián de Alfonso_

Albert Duat_

Antonio Baños_

Boko_

Carles Riu_

Chabela Díaz _

Christian Barranco_

Cristian Campos_

Cristina Ros_

Desirée de Fez_

El Negociador_

Federico Navarro_

Ferran Llauradó_

Gonzalo del Castillo_

Guido Reyna_

Guillem Clua_

Half Nelson_

Íñigo M. Möller_

Iban del Campo_

Iván Caparrós_

Jaime Casas_José Sánchez_

Laura Folguera _

Laura Sales_

Luis Escudero_

Marc Prades_

Marc Piñol_

Matías Corea_

Marga Durá_

Mónica Artigas_Noemí Zapata_

Oriol Rossell_

Óscar del Pozo_

Quim Pérez_

Ramón Vendrell_

Rubén Mayoral_

Rubén Romero_

Salvador Santó_

Sebastià Roig_

Sylvia Patterson_Valentín Roma_

Vicenç Batalla_

Xavi Ayén_

Fotografía: Ángela Bonadiés_

Anna Ripoll_

Biel Capllonch_

Cès DeVilallonga_

Corinne Day_

Daniel Riera_

Darius Dombek_

Jack Ristol_

José Manuel Bejarano_

Jack Ristol_

Julian Broad_

Julio Garcia_

Kevin Westenberg_

Marc Goodwin_

Misha Kominek_

Nacho Juárez_

Natalia_

Nico_

Onofre Bachiller_

Ronnie Black_Simbolek_

Tristan Macherel_

Udo Hess_

Xevi Muntané_

Ilustración: Bernat Lliteras_

Berto Martínez_

J. Carrasco_

Jordi Ferrera_

Juanjo Sáez_

Informática:

David Portillo_

agradecimientos: Rubén Bruque _Montserrat Fernández de Arroyabe _

Lali Almonacid_Mati Barbero_Isa Isla_Carmen Frutos_ Marc Salinas_

Misha Kominek_ Mónica Cuende _Toni López_

Susana Baldó_

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Rankin

Rankin

Synonymous with compelling portraiture, Rankin’s lens captures, creates and unveils icons.Rankin made his name in publishing, founding the seminal monthly magazine Dazed & Confused with Jefferson Hack in 1992. It provided a platform for innovation for emerging stylists, designers, photographers and writers. The magazine went on to forge a distinctive mark in the arts and publishing spheres, and developed a cult status forming and moulding trends, and bringing some of the brightest lights in fashion to the foreground.Riding on the success of the Dazed wave, Rankin took his photography to the wider market, creating landmark editorial and advertising campaigns. His body of work features some of the most celebrated publications, biggest brands and pioneering charities, including Nike, Swatch, Dove, Pantene, Diageo, Women’s Aid, and Breakthrough Breast Cancer. He has shot covers for Elle, German Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Esquire and GQ, and worked with Rolling Stone and Wonderland. His work has always endeavoured to question social norms and ideas of beauty, and in late 2000, Rankin published the heteroclite quarterly Rank, an experimental anti-fashion magazine celebrating the unconventional.

In 2001, Jefferson and Rankin launched AnOther Magazine. With a focus on fashion, originality, and distinction, the magazine has become one of the most recognised and highly esteemed fashion magazines in the world. In response to the expanding menswear market, in 2005 AnOther Man was intro-duced, combining intelligent editorial with groundbreaking design and style. More recently, the Dazed Group has established itself as an online authority, via AnOthermag.com, Dazeddigital.com and Dazedtv.com. Last year, Rankin celebrated Dazed & Confused’s 20th anniversary, shooting 20 front covers of Dazed favourites and 20 inside covers of the next generation of talent, all for the December 2011 issue.

Tapping into the consciousness of the 90s and 00s with his intimate approach and playful sense of humour, Rankin became known for his portraiture of bands, artists, supermodels and politicians. Having photographed everyone from the Queen of England to the Queen of Pop, Rankin is often seen as a celebrity photographer. However, his plethora of campaigns and projects featuring ‘real women’ marked him out as a genuinely passionate portrait pho-tographer, no matter who the subject. Always pursuing personal projects which push his limits, high impact charity projects, and groundbreaking com-mercial campaigns, Rankin has stood out for his creative fearlessness. His first major worldwide and award-winning campaign – Dove’s ‘Real Women’ – epitomised his approach: to reveal the honesty of the connection and collaborative process between photographer and subject. Personal or commercial, Rankin’s images have become part of contemporary iconography, evidence of his frankness and passion for all aspects of modern culture, and its repre-sentation in the photographed image.

Rankin has published over 30 books, is regularly exhibited in galleries around the world, and has recently opened galleries in London and Los Angeles. His latest museum-scale exhibition ‘Show Off’ opens at NRW Dusseldorf in September 2012. In the last few years, he has frequently turned his hand to studies of photography through TV presenting. Working with the BBC, he has featured in a number of seminal documentaries – ‘The Seven Photographs that Changed Fashion’, ‘South Africa in Pictures’, Shooting the Stars’, and most recently a programme tracking back through the rise and fall of Life Magazine and its pioneering photographers.

His affiliation with charities has seen Rankin travel the world, creating powerful campaigns both as a photographer and a director. With Oxfam, he visi-ted the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya, and in 2011 hosted an Oxglam exhibition, featuring work from some of the world’s most talented emerging young photographers, and raising money for the charity. 2012 sees a planned trip to Gaza with Oxfam.

In 2009, Rankin undertook the biggest project of his career – Rankin Live, a mammoth, interactive spectacle and exhibition. Always interested in the democratisation of the image, and also a keen advocate of the amazing digital advances of the photographic industry, Rankin Live was the culmination of the accessibility and speed of modern photography. Rankin proved that everyone can look like a magazine cover star as, for 7 straight weeks, he photo-graphed people off the street, one every 15 minutes – retouching, printing and hanging the image within half an hour of the shutter being fired. Rankin photographed over 1600 Londoners, before then taking Rankin Live on tour in Mexico and New York. LA is next on the list of locations where Rankin Live will be hosted, during the summer this year.

In 2011, Rankin Film Productions was born. Rankin developed a taste for film directing music videos, commercials, and short films with co-director Chris Cottam between 2002 and 2009, including their debut feature film, The Lives of Saints. Written by Tony Grisoni (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), it won the grand jury prize at the Salento International Film Festival. Since 2009, Rankin has continued to direct independently on both commercial and personal projects. Taking on the new role of Executive Producer, Rankin recently founded Collabor8te, in association with The Bureau and Dazed TV. Collabor8te calls on scriptwriters and directors to submit their ideas for narrative film, promising to turn a selection of these dreams into a reality, producing them, featuring them on Dazed TV, and running them on the international film festival circuit.

In November 2011, Rankin returned to magazine publishing with a fresh offering – The Hunger. A biannual fashion, culture and lifestyle magazine, The Hunger and its associated Hunger TV website – a video-based digital platform featuring in -depth interviews, fashion films, blogs, updates, and previews – marked Rankin’s return to the fashion world with an understanding that the future is not only printed but digital too. The Hunger is all about a creative passion and a raw talent that drives individuals forward in a quest for pushing the limits of creativity. Shooting almost every image in issue 1, The Hunger is both a personal creative feat and a launch pad for other talent to step into the breach. Issue 2 will be out in May 2012.

In the past year, Rankin has released the book ‘Myths, Monsters and Legends’, working together with artist Damien Hirst – an eerie celebration of the beauty that can be found in the surreal and typically grotesque creatures of ancient legend. He has also designed a range of watches for Swatch, taking his series of Eyescapes and applying them to the watch face. He shot an epic 100 images for Rolls Royce – heralding the brand’s associations of elegance, su-premacy, femininity, grace and power – to fete the centenary of their iconic ‘Spirit of Ecstasy’. More recently, he has collaborated with his wife – model, actress, and art director, Tuuli Shipster – for a second time, on their book ‘Tuuli Forever’, due out summer 2012. He is also due to release collaborative books with makeup artists Ayami Nishimura and Caroline Saulnier. 2012 promises to be as full a year as 2011, with Rankin’s first ever touring exhibition in China, a museum-scale exhibition at the NRW Dusseldorf, as well as exhibitions in LA, Japan and the UK.Rankin lives in London with his wife, Tuuli, and son, Lyle.

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