Research On Photographers

Research On Photographers

Nick Knight:

Nick Knight is a British Fashion and Documentary Photographer. He was born in 1958 and has three children. He started his career by studying at the Bournemouth and Poole College of arts and design. He is also a web publisher and directed the very famous Lady Gaga’s music video for ‘Born This Way’ which was a huge success. From looking at his work you can match this video to his style of photography it is very unique and quirky. I think Nick Knights style of photography is completely different to things I have seen before, it’s creativity at its finest. However some images appear to be quite strange you can always see how much thought and time he has put into every image to create the outcome he intended. He went on in life to achieve many awards for his work, and you can see why when you look into his photography. I find the images in which he uses bright colours fascinating as someone who prefers black and white images he has made me think otherwise, he also uses a lot of black silhouetted style images with incorporated into solid bold colour. He is a very different style of photographer he dresses the models in extravagant outfits with hairstyles to match but yet they seem to work so well.

Rankin:

Rankin, Real name John Rankin Waddell was born in Paisley in 1966. He is a British Portrait and Fashion Photographer. He studied at the Barnfield College Luton and then went on to The London College of Printing. Whilst studying he met Jefferson Hack, they formed a working relationship and then decided to create a magazine with one another. This was called the ‘Dazed and Confused’. Then following on from this Rankin created his own quarterly Magazine names ‘RANK’. One of Rankin’s most famous pieces are up in an exhibition this is formed of 1500 Portraits of today’s British public he invited people to come across the uk to partake in this project. Rankin become very successful and has shot for world-renowned campaigns such as Nike, Rimmell, Hugo Boss, Coca-Cola ect. In 2010 Rankin Travelled to South Africa with the BBC To shoot the Documentary ‘South Africa in Pictures’.