the rankin live project

in case you haven’t read about this fascinating project in the london papers, you read it here first!

rankin live is a photographic project by fashion and celebrity photographer, rankin. he put out a call for “eccentric and enthusiastic londoners” who would be happy having a portrait sitting with him and donate £50 to oxfam. i yelped with glee and sent him my pic, with a note promising to blog about it if i was chosen. 2 days later i was face to face with the (curiously small, but enigmatic) man himself, requesting that i talk to him with my eyes. his words, not mine.

whatever he thought i was saying, we seemed to have a conversation of sorts as he clicked with his huge lens that was staring right back.

together, we chose one image to be used in his exhibition which will be blown up extra-large. i liked the one we chose because it showed the gaps in my teeth (which i used to hate). even rankin can make a flaw feel special! the man is good!

if you want to come along to the exhibition, it will be in august 2009 on brick lane somewhere. from what i saw at the shoot, there is a large variety of faces to be shown. stay tuned for details. 

below is the chosen image and a small selection of the many happy snaps from the day.

posted: May 7th, 2009 | by: lady worthington | perma: link | tags: 2009, anna worthington, brick lane, east london, london, photographer, photography, rankin, rankin live | 1 Comment »

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