Gérard Rancinan (born 1953)[1] is a French photographer known for his portrait photography that comments on social issues, politics, and pop culture.

[2] Gérard Rancinan began his career at age 15 as an apprentice in the photo lab of the Bordeaux daily newspaper Sud Ouest, where his father also worked.

[4] In 1973, Rancinan signed a distribution contract with the newly formed Sygma press agency.

[6] Five years later, he joined Sygma as a staff photographer in Paris, where he covered global events, including earthquakes in Algeria, political unrest in Poland and conflict in Lebanon.

He also photographed sporting events such as the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup, and worked on film sets for the movies Ran by Akira Kurosawa, Betty Blue by Jean-Jacques Beineix, and The Last Emperor by Bernardo Bertolucci).