Rankin: 

Rankin (John Rankin Waddell) was born Glasgow and brought up in Hertfordshire. 

He first studied accounting at Brighton Polytechnic and whilst doing this course he realised that his heart was with another  subject other than accounting and dropped out.  He then went on to study Photography at Barnfield college in Luton and then progressed onto London college of printing. Whilst Rankin was at this college his met and became very good friend's with a man named Jefferson Hack. 

Hack became a very close worker with Rankin and once they both graduated they decided to start a magazine together called Dazed & Confused. In 1999 Rankin and Hack founded Dazed and Confused film & TV. This soon became the first ever mast-head television broadcast. In December 2000 Rankin decided to launch his own magazine and named it RANK. He also publishes a magazine called 'AnotherMagazine' and recently has started publishing a new magazine called HUNGER. 

His magazines (especially Dazed & Confused) have featured many well known celebrities such as Kate Moss, Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue, Spice Girls, Vivienne Westwood, Queen Elizabeth II etc. 

In 2009 Rankin did his own photography project called 'Rankin Live' inviting many people from across the Uk to have their pictures taken and participate in some way or another in his project. 

I personally love Rankin's work as it is very different from many other photographers work as his is more raunchy you could say and seems quite saucy and revealing to  the usual photos we see of people but this is what makes Rankin's work unique and him such a good artist/photographer. 

David Severn

David Severn is a man who creates work that influences others to want to do what he does best which is taking pictures of everything and anything that catches his eye and thinks will make a great photo. He is known as a social documentary photographer and is from Nottingham where he was born and still lives today. Each year he visists the famous 'goose fair' which is an event that happens once a year in Nottingham. Severn likes to go round the fair ground meeting all sorts of different people that help to run the fair and travel with it. A few times he has been to the caravan park close by where the people that travel with the fair live and are constantly on the move taking the fair to different locations with them. David likes everyone to see his work and loves to inspire young people to be who they want to be, he helps to achieve this by making his work accessable through various networking sites which he is part of such as Facebook and Twitter etc. One of the many projects of David Severn that really caught my eye was called 'thanks maggie' this is of a series of photographs which show the greater cultural areas of Mansfield and people completeing their usual day to day activities, going about life as normal as he takes the photographs. This particular project caught my eye because i really liked the way in which David took the time out to watch these people and photograph them even though they weren't doing anything special. This shows that there is always a potentially great picture to be taken around you everyday weather it is of something unusual or just something simple such as people doing daily activities. Throughout his work Severn likes to take several pictures of the people around Mnsfield and also parts of the land that he can then connect to the pictures he has taken of the people and pair them up showing the relationship between the peopleand the land in and around Mansfield. I feel that using the internet is a great way to showcase your work to others and also help people to find ways of getting more photography work. David loves to travel to different places to take his photos and talk about his work to help inspire others. He takes a lot of portrait images and a few of these have won an award. During the talk at college with David Severn he spoke about a website that he uses callled flackphoto.com, This website shows a lot of work from other photographer's and quite a few times David has interacted and even met some of the photographer's whose work he has viewed and thoroughly enjoyed on this website. David is also very interested in getting to know more about the photographer behind the images he enjoy's viewing and reading their bio's about their lives etc. He has luckily ended up working alongside/with some of the photographer's he has found through this website and created some truly inspiring landscape images.