ABBIE
CONCANNON
BENEATH THE SURFACE
 HELMO |  HELMO |  HELMO |
|---|---|---|
 Rankin |  RANKIN |  RANKIN |
RANKIN
HELMO
Rankin is a portrait/fashion photographer that has worked with the likes of Kylie Minogue, Ellie Goulding, David Bowie and many more famous celebrities. He has produced lots of work throughout his photography career such as advertising, make up, hair, fashion and celebrity portraits.
Within his celebrity portraits, Rankin doesn’t use any specific wardrobes, hair styling or make up. All he simply wants is to capture their personality as we know it through the media. He edits his work to black and white to erase any ‘distractions’ the image may have adopted before photo shopping i.e. colour.
I enjoy his work and decided to refer back to Rankin in my ‘Beneath the Surface’ project because I really love how he can capture a celebrities/models personality and emotion through one photograph.
Helmo is a very talented graphic designer and portrait photographer. I particularly like how he edits his photos – the 3D colour effect and the overlay. Helmo gets the model to pose in a certain way and in a certain direction to replicate the animal he then layers on top of the photo. He also matches the photographs of the animals to the photographs of the models e.g. the photo above of the female model and cat match well because the model has very refined, strong bone structure which corresponds to the image of the cat.
I enjoy his work and have decided to experiment with his technique because I would like to test out the use of different colours for each photograph when layering my own images.