John Rankin Waddell, known under his working name Rankin, is a British portrait and fashion photographer and director. He is best known as the founder of Dazed and Confused magazine. Rankin’s work appeared in magazines such as GQ, Vogue and Marie Claire. Rankin attended Thirsk School and Sixth Form College. Whilst studying he realised that his interests lay elsewhere and dropped out. Instead he started studying  photography at Barnfield College Luton and then London College of Printing. In 1992 Rankin, with the help of Jefferson Hack, started a magazine together called Dazed & Confused. In December 2000 Rankin launched his own quarterly fashion magazine, Rank. He also publishes Another Magazine, Another Man and more recently Hunger, a website and biannual fashion and lifestyle magazine. In April 2009 Rankin created Annroy, a contemporary structure designed by Trevor Horne Architects that is home to Rankin’s own photographic studio, gallery and living space, where he lives with his wife and model Tuuli Shipster. Each month Annroy holds a different exhibition, which features some of Rankin’s current work.