Photographer: Rankin

Photoshoot: "Selfridges Cats& Dogs"

- for an Advertising Campaign

A Photographer, publisher and most recently a film director, Rankin brings a mischievous wit to whatever he does.

His intimate portraits, distinctive fashion and commercial work and groundbreaking art projects have marked him out as a one of the world’s leading image makers.

Rankin has recently completed a feature length film "The Lives of the Saints". Financed by Dazed Film and TV (Dazed & Confused Mag). The film is a darkly comic morality tale whereby fantastical events take place in the ordinary surroundings of modern-day London. 

Rankin website

If anyone ever needed proof that pop music need not be at all complex to be great, they simply need to listen to Gnarls Barkley’s "Crazy" one time. Within one minute, the simple bass beat, tasteful strings, and Cee-Lo’s voice drive the hook into your brain to remain for a long time. Danceable, singable…"Crazy" is as close to perfect as it gets.

Now, they’ve released a video for the song likely to go down in music history as one of the great visual moments.

The video directed by Robert Hale, based on Rorschach inkblot tests, fluidy morphs illustrations.

So who is Gnarls Barkley?

• Dangermouse aka Brian Burton is a producer, recently garnered a Grammy nomination for Producer of the Year for his work with the "virtual band" Gorillaz.
• Cee-Lo aka Thomas Calloway is a wildly eclectic solo artist. His music is steeped in the gospel and blues traditions of the SouthEast, merging timeless soul with experimental funk and hip hop.
  

watch the video

Editorial: "Nell’Ottica" Elle It Feb2001

Model: Mariacarla Boscono

His symbolic and dream-like images, sometimes surreal, show his constant creative investigation, which at the same time reflect the evolution of the habits and customs of the last twenty years. He shoots primarily with Polaroid 20x25 cm large format sheet film.

Giovanni Gastel portfolio, via Gianfranco Meza.

Editorial: "Hitchkok" BLVD mag, Netherlands 

Born in Amsterdam, Kok emerged as a collage-artist in the eighties. After working in the house of fashion designer Thierry Mugler airbrushing & designing, he picked up the camera himself.

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Ben Duggan website

Benjamin Kanarek portfolio