John Rankin Waddell

John Rankin Waddell in a British born photographer most well known for his portrait, fashion and commercial photography Waddell attended Thirst school and sixth form Whilst studying accounting at Brighton Polytechnic, he realized that his interests lay elsewhere and dropped out, taking up the study of photography at Barnfield College Luton and then London college of printing. Rankin met Jefferson Hack and once they graduated, together they started a magazine titled Dazed and Confused. In 1999, the two became the founder of a production company known as, Dazed Film & TV.Rankin then in 2000 launched RANK, a quarterly fashion magazine. 

Davis Bailey

Davis Bailey is a British born fashion and portrait photographer. Bailey developed a love of natural history this then led into his photography. As he suffered from dyslexia he struggled at school  As well as dyslexia he also has the motor skill disorder dyspraxia. In  August 1958, and determined to pursue a career in photography, he bought a Canon rangefinder camera. Unable to obtain a place at the London College of Printing because of his school record, he became a second assistant to David Collins. He was delighted to be called to an interview with photographer John French.

In 1959, Bailey became a photographic assistant at the John French studio, and in May 1960, he was a photographer for John Cole’s Studio Five, before being contracted as a fashion photographer for British Vogue magazine later that year. He also undertook a large amount of freelance work.Along with Terence Donovan and Brian Duffy, Bailey captured and helped create the ‘Swinging London’ of the 1960s: a culture of fashion and celebrity chic. The three photographers socialised with actors, musicians and royalty, and found themselves elevated to celebrity status. Together, they were the first real celebrity photographers, named by Norman Parkinson “the Black Trinity”