Showbiz | Celebrity News I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice . Photographer Rankin has spoken of his pride in the legacy of his magazine Dazed And Confused for pioneering LGBT representation, ahead of an exhibition of his famous covers.
The British artist said he hopes his new exhibition of photos shot between 1991 and 2001 offers a time capsule of UK creativity in the 1990s. He told the PA news agency: “This is not a greatest hits. It’s almost watching me grow up as a photographer.
“This voice of this one photographer, and you can hear it through that decade. And it’s very much going against a lot of the other things that were homogenous within the industry.” Rankin co-founded Dazed And Confused with Jefferson Hack in 1991, with the first issue published in 1992, and the duo were heavily influenced by Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine in the US.
Across 10 years, Rankin photographed more than 200 editorial shoots for the magazine and the exhibition Back In The Dazed at London’s 180 Studios is the first UK retrospective of his works over the decade, featuring photos of cover stars including Kate Moss, Kylie Minogue and David Bowie. He said: “In a way Dazed was an experiment. And it was about being experimental in terms of who we were putting on the cover, what kind of covers we were doing.
“We’ve got people crying on the cover, we had an old woman, we did our old people’s shoot for the f.