Monday, August 10th, 2009
This summer, join Rankin at the Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, for the first ever UK retrospective of his work. Bringing together more than 600 images – many of them previously unseen – and a career spanning 22 years, Rankin Retrospective offers an unparalleled survey of Rankin’s work to date and an introduction to a photographer who, perhaps more than any other, has shaped a generation.
At once revealing, shocking, amusing and seductive, Rankin Retrospective is an exhilarating journey through a diverse portfolio. Experience the glamour and glitz of his celebrity portraits; the sweat and sensuality of his erotic work; the mischievousness of his provocative Self Portraits; the intimacy of his Tuuli series; the graphic and luminous style of his fashion and beauty shots; the strength and dignity of his Oxfam images; and his personal family shots.
Rankin Retrospective revisits some of the most outstanding images of our time, and also includes a dynamic live element in which 1000 new faces are added to the show as Rankin shoots in an open studio. From the groundbreaking ‘Nudes’ series, which featured people who answered an advertisement asking how they would like to be photographed, to signature portraits of the Queen, Kate Moss, Tony Blair, and Oasis amongst many others, the exhibition provides an unprecedented opportunity to review a vast and varied oeuvre, and follow the evolution of a career that has always been at the vanguard of the profession.
Few photographers have shot as many of the world’s personalities, models and celebrities as Rankin. But his work has also encompassed international campaigns featuring ordinary people, and has always sought to engage and challenge, questioning prevailing norms and ideas of beauty and generating debate in the process.
Rising to prominence as chief photographer at the court of Cool Britannia, Rankin documented the rogues and royalty of this hyper-confident age, depicting the YBA and Brit Pop scene in his distinctive sharp urban style. The power of these images, which featured in the pages of Dazed & Confused, defined the cultural influence of the magazine he co-founded, and through them, an entire era.
Since the millennium, Rankin’s work has changed in tone and broadened in scope to encompass more intimate personal projects, timeless portraits and charitable work, reflecting both the re-ordered worldview of the Noughties and his own development as a practitioner.
Rankin Retrospective is the summation of the many guises and personalities of a larger than life character, who has dominated and enlivened the British photographic scene for years.
“It is with pride and trepidation that I mount this exhibition. Never before have I faced my own body of work on such a scale. There’s nowhere to hide! However, for me this is one of the most exciting stages in my journey as a photographer. I am grateful to have the opportunity to present the world with summation of so many years’ hard work – and play!” – Rankin.
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
Welcome to Edinburgh Art Festival
Edinburgh Art Festival is Scotland’s largest annual festival of visual art and has something for everyone. Established in 2004, the Festival works in partnership with the city’s artists, galleries, museums and visual art spaces to present the best, exciting and most intriguing in modern and contemporary visual art. This year will see the 6th Edinburgh Art Festival take place between 5 August and 5 September.
2009 Exhibitions Programme Unveiled
Ranging from major exhibitions by leading British and international artists to work by a new generation of talent, the 2009 EAF programme sees 50 participating galleries, both permanent and temporary, including 11 spaces new to the Festival.
- First UK showing of work by major international artists
- Newly commissioned work by leading British artists
- Old masters and young Turks
- Sculpture in galleries and public spaces
- New spaces including Granton Lighthouse, Jupiter Artland and New Media Scotland’s Inspace
- Temporary exhibitions including The Caravan Gallery’s EAF debut
- The Festival opens on 5 August 2009 with the EAF launch followed by private views across the capital, including talks by Peter Blake, Briony Fer, John McCracken and Bob and Roberta Smith, and Collective’s launch party of The How Not to Cookbook – lessons learned the hard way, in Princes Street Gardens
- ART LATE returns on 27 August 2009
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
To all designers, whether you have worked in the industry for over ten years, a creative director, a university lecturer, final year student, currently doing placements or have just started a career in design. I would love to hear your thoughts. The aim is to do video recorded messages, it can be through your mac/pc camera or an iphone (max 1min). You are free to voice out anything in your message and to be as creative as you want.
The videos will then be published on my website alongside with a wall full of video entries. It will act as a study into the recession within design and the creative industry, it can be easily accessible and shared.
Until we see a sign of recovery within our economy it may be 1yr or 2yrs… or 5yrs down the line, I will request for you to re-make another video to see your progress and career developments and this will draw a comparison and conclude the study. We’re living through it now and I feel it’s worth documenting it and it will indefinitely be part of our history. It just takes a minute!
I truly hope that you are able to contribute, I believe that it’s not only important to know the statistics but to understand fully of what is going on and know how best to ride out the recession. I hope that it will be a good platform to share your views.
Please record your video, label it with your full name and send it to: mail@edshek.com
I look forward to seeing your video entries and they will be published here on August 31.
Many thanks
Ed
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
To all designers, whether you have worked in the industry for over ten years, a creative director, a university lecturer, final year student, currently doing placements or have just started a career in design. I would love to hear your thoughts. The aim is to do video recorded messages, it can be through your mac/pc camera or an iphone (max 1min). You are free to voice out anything in your message and to be as creative as you want.
The videos will then be published on my website alongside with a wall full of video entries. It will act as a study into the recession within design and the creative industry, it can be easily accessible and shared.
Until we see a sign of recovery within our economy it may be 1yr or 2yrs… or 5yrs down the line, I will request for you to re-make another video to see your progress and career developments and this will draw a comparison and conclude the study. We’re living through it now and I feel it’s worth documenting it and it will indefinitely be part of our history. It just takes a minute!
I truly hope that you are able to contribute, I believe that it’s not only important to know the statistics but to understand fully of what is going on and know how best to ride out the recession. I hope that it will be a good platform to share your views.
Please record your video, label it with your full name and send it to: mail@edshek.com
I look forward to seeing your video entries and they will be published here on August 31.
Many thanks
Ed
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