Art - What happens when you give 70 singers and musicians a picture of themselves and ask them to destroy the shot? That was the start of Destroy / Rankin, an art-project by British fashion photographer Rankin and Youth Music, the UK's largest children's music charity providing funding for music projects and activities.

The project is one of the main events organised for the 10th birthday of the charity. Artists such as Kylie Minogue, Basement Jaxx, Gossip and Marianne Faithfull all provided their services and 'destroyed' their pictures. They cut them up, burnt them, defaced them with paint and nail varnish, ... every possible way of destroying a picture was allowed.

Check out some before and after pictures:

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Music destroyed!

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    Youth Music

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    Youth Music

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    Youth Music

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All of the donated pictures will be auctioned off. Some will be auctioned this Saturday, 14th November 2009, at Phillips de Pury & Company in London and others will be auctioned via Ebay. All profits of both auctions will go to Youth Music to help the charity.

Find out more about Destroy / Rankin here!