12 Quotes by Rankin

It’s important to be honest enough about your work, and the areas in which you can improve. I’m still learning every day and I’m still Hungry to create more and better work, hence the name.

Photography to me is an addiction. I get jittery after a couple of days without a camera. Everyone who knows me says I’m happiest when I’m shooting.

If you surround yourself with talented people and you give them the freedom to achieve, then the work will never fail.

My Dad taught me that the English upper class are sent to school to be taught to be confident, whereas in Glasgow you’re born confident. I’ve always thought that pretty much summed me up. Born confident.

I think if you don’t love people and aren’t fascinated by them, you’ll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures will look cold.

You have to believe in what you’re doing otherwise what’s the point?

At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity.

I remember driving around with my parents when I was little and looking out of the window and being very aware that it was the shape of a film screen when you went to the cinema. This was how I first saw the world, framed through a car window.

There’s a time when people say your work is revolutionary, but you have to keep being revolutionary. I can’t keep shooting pop stars all my life. You have to keep changing, keep pushing yourself, looking for the new, the unusual.