Rank Studios is a full-service 
photography, marketing & design studio.
Let's translate your vision into reality.

We’re creative. We’re practical. We’re really good listeners. If you know what you’re looking for, we can help you achieve your communications goals and create new value for your business or nonprofit. Need help but aren’t quite sure what you want? We can help you strategize, achieve your communications goals and deliver a project that informs and inspires, just as we’ve been doing for leading companies and brands for 20+ years.

Services

PHOTOGRAPHY

Corporate Storytelling

Environmental Portraiture

Editorial

Photojournalism

Event “Journalism”

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Branding

Strategy

Corporate Presentation

Brochure

Collateral Design

MOTION

Direction

Cinematography

Production

After Effects

Animation

Testimonials

Rank Studios has helped Velociteach with photography and design for nearly a decade. Chris and his team have used their expertise to help us design products, communicate our message, and extend our brand. We have benefited greatly from Rank Studios’ technical expertise and marketing acumen.

I’m wondering why I never contacted these guys sooner! Seriously, they all have commendable talent in their respective fields and knocked my concepts out of the ballpark. Thanks for an amazing experience!
Kip Havel, Vice President, Marketing, Aflac

Principals

Chris Rank

Chris is an award-winning Atlanta photographer whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Sky Magazine, Time and Bloomberg News. A few of His corporate, nonprofit and university clients include Aflac, AT&T, Chick-fil-A, The Coca-Cola Company, Cox, Delta Air Lines, Georgia Tech, IHG, Hilton, and UPS.

A former staff photographer with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Chris worked for Sports Illustrated during the 1996 Olympic Games. That same year he was nearly blown up covering a breaking news story.

He has extensive location photography experience, logging successful shoots across North America, Europe and Asia.

In 2007, Chris was honored with a first-place award in documentary photography by the New York Association of Black Journalists. A Paris gallery later offered prints of the award-winning image from the funeral of legendary musician James Brown. Chris holds a Master of Science in photography from Syracuse University, where he was an adjunct graphic design professor. He also earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography at the University of Georgia.

Chris likes to attempt speaking Spanish. Gracias!

Aimée Rank

Aimée has a Bachelors in History and a Masters in Education, both from Columbia University. Until marrying Chris, she spent more time teaching social studies to middle schoolers than she did talking about f-stops and shutter speeds.

Aimée is the glue that holds it all together. Without her nothing would get done that actually mattered. Billing, insurance, you name it she’s on it.

Aimée handles the behind the scenes operations at Rank Studios and is the point person for administrative questions. When she’s not handling administrative tasks she will probably be out running half marathons with “her” dogs, Copper and Freddie.  

Additionally, Aimée is the team member to contact for family and children’s sessions.

Team Members

Jenn Finch

Jenn graduated from the University of Georgia in 2017 and after an internship at the Rio Paralympics in Brazil, she started working for the MLS Soccer team, D.C. United.

In 2019 she returned to Atlanta where she grew up and began freelancing.

She has had work published in the Washington Post, the Seattle Times, the Atlanta Journal Constitution and others.

She spends time with her dog Kai and loves to sit around and wait for refrigerators.

Casey Sykes

Casey has been a member of the Rank Studios team since 2019.

Along with shooting photos himself, Casey also serves as an assistant and editor. 

He is a 2017 graduate of the University of Georgia and lives in nearby Austell with his wife, Abigail and their daughter Eleanor.