Seize the days
You’d normally expect Rankin to be shooting fashion, celebrity portraits or commercial projects, but the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown led him down a very different path. Forced to stay away from his London studio, at his house in Suffolk, he turned his lens to flowers.
He reveals, ‘I’d been trying to do flowers for so long and was really drawn to them. Like most photographers I’m obsessed by flowers – the beauty of nature is something that you just can’t not love as a photographer.’
Rankin adds, ‘[In the past] I almost gave up on it because I just couldn’t crack getting into flowers. I ended up trying to put jeopardy into pictures and having them in vases, leaning on the side of tables, just about to fall off. Then lockdown happened and, like almost everybody in lockdown, I was really anxious. I was on my own, with my wife… and the spare room became my studio.’
Rankin did a few shoots
