Rankings destroy biography

Artist rankin

Rankin produced the work by taking portraits of the artist and then asking them to destroy it by using different materials. Florence Welch from Florence and the Machine had drawn over her portrait using a metallic pen (image on the right).

Rankin portraits

Research the ‘RANKIN – DESTROY’ project, and produce some written responses to the work. Experiment with a range of post shoot image manipulation techniques, to deconstruct and reconstruct portraits.

Rankin creative

For Youth Music’s 10th Anniversary musicians photographed by Rankin created an original piece of artwork based on one of the photographer’s iconic portraits.

Rankin archive

Due to the charities 10th birthday, Rankin asked 70 musicians and visual artists to "destroy" their own portraits taken by the iconic photographer. This would eventually lead to an iconic, original piece of work produced by the artist themselves.

Rankin destroy facts

The 'Destroy' project commenced in dedication to the Youth Music's 10th birthday. In lute of the celebration 70 of the worlds renowned musicians and visual artists were collected together to have photographs taken by Rankin which were then donated to Youth Music.

Rankin famous photos

As part of Youth Music's 10th Anniversary, more than 70 of the world's biggest musicians and artists create artwork out of their original Rankin portraits.

Rankin group

To celebrate Youth Music’s 10th Birthday, celebrated photographer Rankin asked 70 musicians and visual artists to ‘destroy’ their own portraits. The participants included Joe Strummer, Ian Brown, Marianne Faithfull, Andre , Michael Stipe and Kylie Minogue as well as bands like Pete and the Pirates, The Enemy and The View.