The Hunger

To be honest, I have never heard the name Rankin before.
But, I checked out his website rankin.co.uk and had a look at his absolutely nice photographs. I also found a lot of books on his website, which I actually knew and looked through before on one of my many visits to Waterstones or Foyles. However, that's not what this is all about. The reason I even had a look at Rankin's website was The Hunger, his new bi-annual magazine. It has been in the window of Artsword Bookshop in Shoreditch for two weeks and after I had seen it a couple of times I decided to buy it. It's almost a book, you could probably kill somebody with it. Another surprising fact, it was only £ 4.

And the magazine is amazing!

I haven't started reading it, but checked out all the photographs. He included many different people from actors to musicians, artists and models. Rankin writes in the introduction "I have launched this magazine now, because I want to give a voice to the creative people who drive forward out of pure love of the process". I love this statement and I love this mix of people from different creative fields. In the magazine are mostly photographs but also interviews with the people he had in front of the lens. The magazine is so pure and direct, a piece of art in itself.

I know more about Rankin now, look forward to reading the launch issue of The Hunger and also already to the next issue in summer 2012.