“...it's all about Vanity”


- Tricky, ‘Destroy’, Rankin Publishing, 2009


 


Taken on a photoshoot for British GQ, March 1996, this session between Rankin and Tricky was used in multiple publications across the 1990s. A meeting of two creative minds, this photosession becoming a touch-stone in Rankin's career when discussing stripped back aesthetics and emotional honesty through portraiture.

Tricky
British GQ, March, 1996
Limited Edition Inkjet Print
20 x 24 inches
Edition of 500

Comes with signed Certificate of Authenticity

Rankin is a British photographer, publisher, and film director.

As a photographer Rankin's portfolio ranges from portraiture to documentary. He has shot The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Kate Moss, Kendall Jenner and The Queen to name only a few.

He is best known for work that is on the cultural cusp and leading future trends: producing rule-breaking campaigns for brands such as Rolls Royce, Unilever, L’Oreal and Samsonite; creating wide reaching projects for charities including Women’s Aid and Macmillan; and shooting music videos for the likes of Miley Cyrus, Rita Ora and Kelis.

As a publisher, Rankin co-founded the seminal magazine Dazed & Confused with Jefferson Hack in 1991, and has since published the likes of AnOther and AnOther Man, alongside over 40 books and the biannual fashion and culture print and digital platform, Hunger.

His photography has been published everywhere from his own publications to Elle, Vogue, Esquire, GQ, Rolling Stone, and Wonderland, and exhibited in galleries globally, including MoMA, New York, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Rankin lives in London with his wife Tuuli and their dogs.
High quality archival inkjet printing allows for stunning prints, as the Advanced Black and White printing helps produce high density, deep, rich blacks and ultra-smooth tones.

Rankin's inkjet pieces are printed on a Semimatte or silk paper finishes. Using a 10 colour large format professional Epson printer under the careful eye of the Rankin Studio team.