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leigh and co-hosting with me since day is our very special guest world famous for hire for rankin but i thank you so much for having us in your studios here in london it's pleasure our well you name it from the rolling stones david boy madonna the queen even miss piggy you've pretty much filmed and photographed them all so i guess it's fair to ask you for my first question what is a day in the life of rincon like oh it's quite long because i'll be very early or when we wake up about five maybe five thirty i get i'll check my emails very quickly i then take my dogs for a walk for about an hour and a half i come by so i'm back by about six to seven of emails to about nine thirty and then i come and say generally no go shit which is very rare i'll do the meetings and then i'll probably finish about it was how to launch it one and also the never meeting. or have

a lunch and then probably finish by seven and then have me. ok so it sounds pretty ordinary even though you're surrounded by celebrities when you do actually do a shoot yeah i know i'm pretty much a workaholic so so everybody thinks i'm a photographer direct. i have a publishing company i have an advertising agency or rep direct. i have managed the studio which. yes some kind of prison is really high they can help us put the show today together we're going to be talking a little bit more in-depth about your publishing company will come to that later right but you know your subject very differently from superstar athletes like le bron james the basketball star to actresses to singers what we hear the creative process of how you start to shoot who it's all differ it's always different you know sometimes it would be mean it's come up with the idea the idea sometimes an

agency sometimes it's a client sometimes it's a celebrity that comes out with a basically start with a brief which is like a treatment. of pre-production that gets all the stuff that you need to shoot together. with the celebrity all the model the subject going to her make up if it's goal kind of concept behind it might be can make up will spend ages to in the can so i call it glam prism which means i'm waiting for glam and then we go on set and we shoot digitally which means that everything is seen by everybody and it's a very open forum so everybody can comment on it. sometimes that doesn't work for you because maybe the steps he's not in a really good place that day so you have to persuade can be very difficult but most of time is pretty good because it's very collaborative ok i really want to take a. a look at the work and life so far of.

rankin's portraits are world famous he manages to do what most photographers can only dream of capture unforgettable moments with stars like. david bowie and politicians like mikhail gorbachev or. many of his works have become iconic. like this official portrait of the queen's marker golden jubilee. the british photographer is in the world why he shoots photos and creates ad campaigns for international labels rankin has even made a name for himself as a film director. nine hundred sixty six he demonstrated a good sense of humor early on in his cellphone. when he was in his early twenty's rankin decided to make photography his career and moved to la.

this is where he got his big break back in the early nine hundred ninety s. together with his college friend jefferson high and he founded youth culture magazine dazed and confused. stars like you two from. model kate moss. actress kirsten dunst and pop star justin timberlake graced the covers rankin now publishes for fashion and lifestyle magazines and has issued more than forty books of photographs he has his own studio publishing house and ad agency. his latest print project is hunger magazine which appears twice a year. and with his ambitious project rankin live the photographer shows that he can make anyone look like a cover model since two thousand and nine he shot pictures of thousands of ordinary people like here in berlin it's an all knowing. adventure which takes him around

the globe. sometimes even famous faces arms immediately recognizable in rankin's photos like icelandic singer or top model heidi klum whether it's his celebrity portrayed all photographers rankin has created many iconic images including some that will go down in history. so you have done so much here and career what would you say was perhaps the breakthrough. not one thing that a couple of things probably photographing. was a big thing set setting up day stunt days magazine and then photographing the queen i will tell us about that of course. i've done a little research on the queen and found that she had her sense of humor so i was really focused on getting a photograph of her with that sense of humor and also she. part of my camera fell

off and she started laughing so once i'd seen now i was like that's all going to get and i just got to k. mom can you small please my small mom can have small until she smiled and then i got it now you've also worked with ordinary people what are the challenges there the challenges of working real people. are pretty much the same as working with celebrities just to make people feel comfortable and and i think the thing is always more difficult for her famous people because they go to their face their way of being shall and to get them out of that it's more complicated whereas real people it's more about just making them feel good you know making the film feel comparable yeah so what is your preferred medium for working film photography print i think probably fits over fees were happiest because his wife kind you know i picked up cameron was twenty one and it was a big. big deal for me because i'm

a light bulb moments. photography stephanie my first love but i think film is so difficult to do to get right when you start yet another magazine hunger yes why is it called hunger. a star i don't get because i left as a creative director and missed that kind of. tone in the teen aspect of it because he gets so much information for you from and ideas for from working a team and i was still hungry so congress enough to get it. now the subject of our next report is media artist cole tell me a little bit about how you discovered her on net through my agent so you see who was me rep in photography and she said i want to meet some new surprises and she said oh check the skull and color she's really interesting and i saw her work is some things i'm familiar with so i asked if i could meet her and she came in and

the first question i asked her was you know what you're interested in and sort of session with technology because most people your age are more about analog and they're kind of looking backwards and she said well it's around the industry and it was full of middle age white men no offense to men. you're amazing and then she told me his story and it was such a. intends and her way of dealing with what's happened to her was for her. i was very taken by her well in saying on the subject then of coal and her work i want to take a closer look now in our next report. works by british multimedia artist m. cole provocative and often unconventional photos and videos are her preferred mode of creative expressions my whole. line between some of this very task

and something that's entice a. film is a plot medium so i want to bring out the sensory feeling from it so if i can get people to feel something through the texture of the color in my amateur. them study information experience design at london's royal college of art there she discovered her passion for photography and video art. i ended up just kind of playing around in the low i found the immediacy of photography is so much more rewarding than spending twenty four hours on a sewing machine trying to make. you know i can just throw stuff in the show and people on the show and get the pitch and i. know works predominantly as a photographer and director much of her work is inspired by surrealism an artist like salvador dali and. like her short film on your venus. is poking fun

at the female. connections from the cost of class. to see. and connecting it to day with. by themselves. in the wilds so i kind of recreated. a new female ideal kind of an. off the top based on. much of m's work revolves around the stereotypical presentation of women as a team she to feel victim to digital abuse when pictures of her were distributed on pornographic websites. on plugging for a few years she's back on line with fresh confidence. you know if you've been bullied out of a space you shouldn't you shouldn't be ashamed to be in that space you just have to be those much sunny video i mean i get new to some of my work sometimes i'm pushing like stuff. i've got control of that you know i'm not going to let somebody else

take control of my online image if it's if it's going to be that is going to be mine. humor and irony are too important stylistic devices i am cold likes to employ regardless of whether the topic is serious or not like in her video sloppy seconds. to my anything serious or especially problematic social problems and humaneness is a universal tool to say that people can relax and once people are locks this so much more likely to get an understanding if you're well. then cole certainly can't complain about not getting enough commissions and the british media are just as confident that her career will continue to blossom. now ranking has invited meghan to take a short bull through this area of north london where he lives and works.

and calls not only a media artist you've also featured her on online and in your latest edition or upcoming edition of your magazine tell me a little bit more about this collaboration well i've met coal through my agent as i said and she she is somebody the icing people should be aware of so i was very very keen to care featured on law and i featured in days as well i think that when you get you know when you meet someone you really think is brilliant at what they do you really really want to get them as much p.r. . or were standing right here in the middle of london your films. gotland why i came to town one can unlock oh i moved here because. this is kentish town and say ok. when i mean here it was pretty much the only place in north london i could afford to move. around the corner and i moved here in ninety six

just over there and i lived here in north london since about nice six well you know moving from scotland to london i mean i'm just guessing but it must've felt like you were a small fish in a big pond yeah i didn't know anybody in the industry when i moved to london i was very much from a kind of known commercial photography no not no not since i was in background say it was a very strange experience and that's why it was great to meet jefferson at college because we would buy from the same boat and then we wouldn't confuse yet and days movies and we ended up kind of you know china kind of make a mark here without any support from anybody really and why here why not hollywood for example i mean you work with so many of these levers famous faces i think then we had no clue that we'd ever be working with all the would we were very much focused on you know we report for college when we met and we started the magazine

days if he's at college and he was really just a way of us kind of document ing and creating culture that was around so hollywood wasn't even on a radar all right i want to pull a little bit back to social media again i mean you started out in classic publishing now we live in the digital age you're also really active on social media . it's a classic photographer but also someone who uses social media to promote your work what is your responsibility when it comes to teenagers and image in these images of beauty online well i think everybody that picks up a camera professionally has a responsibility to the. to who you'll fight your graphing to while you're photographing them but i think nowadays well i've kind of love myself for sort of for process for knowing you know when you push the boundaries you have to really know why you're doing and what your intention is to you know to get to

the problem is that now people have got no idea of that responsibility and using it kind of willy nilly so i think actually now i've got more responsibility to lie on now to some so focused on not ok well side art for our next report which rankin also helped to choose today we're going to take a look at teenagers social media and social media obsession our teenagers winning or losing in this digital age. these days you can do much more with a phone than just make telephone calls and send text messages to news apps help you keep up with what's going on in the world twenty four seven. or you can play games to your heart's content. and if you need a train ticket you can buy it with your smartphone. thanks to streaming you can always access your favorite music. social media platforms such as snap chat

facebook and instagram allow you to communicate with friends nonstop. the possibilities are endless what do young people use their phones for the most. by menus to find out when the next bus is coming from music audio books everything phallus i think mostly to interact with over people and also to take some good photos i use it mainly for. to you know to discover the city on my own listen music a lot and obviously social media i use for surfing the internet to make. victor assume. to speak with. people. is one of his particularly popular at the moment instagram instagram mr instagram instagram for example. users can upload pictures and videos using various filters share them with others and like entries

instagram already has more than a billion users double the figure two years ago. people share their favorite experiences vacation snaps are for ticket only popular as are pictures of animals. and a tasty looking food. it's a perfect platform for showing off and users love it. especially as it offers then the possibility to present their life in a different way. definitely it's not the real world i added stuff everyone edits things instagram is going to have because this is that really what is really happening in our lives there are reports everywhere that things are always being edited out there's definitely a lot of them on instagram i think a lot of people edit their photos. you can even change the way you look with some apps and undergo a digital beauty operation but this is not without problems studies have shown the

digitally enhanced versions of the ideal body are having an impact on people's perception of themselves. you can even change the shape of your eyes in one click this it says really makes a difference. make it easy to have plumped up lips. that's really weird. people doing gnashing my face and if you got used to doing that all the time when you would like yourself with a jewish or you can have a narrower nose if you like. so it was like this one this is if we were surrounded by perfect people but that's nonsense it's not the case at all nobody's perfect. and this news just teaches school children in their parents how to deal with social media. some children already have smartphones at the age of eight. where they such must have excessive fees. social recognition it's

a need that we all have of the social networks tap into this need very simply literally at the click i can upload a picture after buying a new pair of sunglasses to share with my friends and get instant feedback on what made it for. these fish ones to ensure that young people use their phones and computers responsibly. in other words continue to use them but not excessively. i just wonder why the question is whether you can do something without just small are you still able to it's important to teach children they can survive without their phone but they could get through a day without them and he can talk. phones and social networks can beat addictive. so sometimes the only answer is switch them off. there's a lot to see in rankin studio. they're going to specially

liked his rank a masterpiece have. now you want to talk about the subject of out the issues of teenagers in social media addiction why is this topic important here well photography as a medium has become very democratic let's be pleasing because as small phones and i found myself on different social media platforms kind of wanting to go back to the mint check them a lot and i suddenly realized for me about three years ago that i was addicted i was addicted to walk people would think you. were late since it was it being liked and i thought well if this is me being addicted to it then if you're a ten twelve year old kid how's that affecting you how's that influencing you and i started to talk to people about it and i just got this overwhelming. you know response from people that they were having the same feelings start to do some research on it and it was really obvious there was

a lot of statistics coming out that actually people were addicted and a lot of the platforms we designed to be addictive and i just felt we have a responsibility because it's photography that they're using the using them as a way of talking to each other photos are way not about capturing a moment their way of conveying a moment and because that is something that i do i just felt responsible and i felt that we should do something about it ok was and he said you felt responsible what have you done and you know you've taken any action or anything yeah well funnily enough i am actually taking quite an interesting action of trying to set up a symposium in november with my publishing company days media to actually discuss all these things and i've been writing what we call white papers which i like document essays on and trying to get a group of people together to write an essay a series of essays on it ok so you're saying that you did become addicted to

anything what people were saying about you do you still use social media and i do most are looking into other kind of more ethical ways of using social media because the problem with it is that it's not necessarily the people that are running the companies the problem is the algorithms that they've created just constantly feeding out design. is something. i mean it's something that we need to investigate and discuss and of been charmed really hard to look for alternatives but yes i still use it it's impossible for me not to use it because it's part of my business it's a life of everybody's life and also i don't think even change anything from the outside i think you need to be from there with with the inside changing and creating content there's a little bit different or trying to challenge people or even having fun with it because on movie somebody that likes to take the mick. things. going on but on a lighter note now with selfies you know some guys are meant to be fine. in their

very very tight dress if you do you think why do you think they're doing us i think we could create is a margin is slow that people are perpetuating through the same type of imagery and i really think the problem is that if this is what you putting out is your kind of happy life you can as online life it's like what's your actual life like and also people are looking at these images of people and they're thinking it's real or they're thinking even if it's fabricated they have a better life than them and i think that sets people up against each other and back in the day when photoshop came along all of the media especially the magazines got really criticized for using photoshop on celebrities are role models now you can go and buy some equal face chewed and you see people use not own on on social media and not inherently is one of the worst things you could be doing because not only are you crying a fantasy version of yourself that's going to mess with other people's heads as

well so you're messing with heads and both ways well i'm i'm glad to hear that you're trying to do something positive in that direction but unfortunately we are out of time first and say yes we are writing thank you so much for having us here in our studios and from co-hosting our show i hope we made you feel comfortable as co host and co editor in chief says hey thank you you did thank you all right and with that we are out of time on this special edition of euro max with our special guests today are for ranking for me end of the rest of the crew here from london as always thanks for tuning in to see see and .

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