What can I say?! Rankin's work absolutely amazed me, he has had such broad range of interests when it comes to photography, not only photographing the leggy supermodels. But he also photographs his family, or random strangers that he has taken interest to. There was even an old fashioned photobooth for visitors to get there own photo taken in black and white passport style...uuurrrm as you can see above! Lots of fun!
He splits his vast exhibition of works into categories, which give a meaning to the photographs, a really interesting section was where he morphed himself into different beings....him as a boy, and as an old man (you can see this below) , his face as a pig (below also), him kissing himself, him as each of the spice girls....really you have to see this to appreciate the humour of this one!
Aswell as his amazing fashion photography where he plays with shadows, colour and the sillhouette, he has another section of the exhibition that interests me..... There is a part of the exhibition where there is a tatty looking leather sofa in the middle surrounded by photos of people sitting on it all doing different things, these photos were placed in a waiting room area with the sofa in the middle, Rankin describes how fun it was to see the look of realisation on the persons face when they notice that they are sitting on the sofa where all the photographs surrounding them were photographed.
Going to this exhibition I appreciate Rankin's work a lot more than I did before, I never realised quite how broadly he has worked and it has been nice to see all the stages of his ever growing career.
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