RACISM IN THE FASHION INDUSTRY
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- 11 MAY 2011
WHO IS NICK KNIGHT
By JO CRAVEN
Nick Knight is top of the celebrities’ photographer wishlist. His reputation for pushing boundaries technically and creatively at every opportunity and being at the forefront of innovation is deeply attractive. He has worked on a range of often controversial issues during his career – from racism, disability, ageism, and more recently fat-ism. He continually challenges conventional ideals of beauty.
He once said: “I don’t want to reflect social change – I want to cause social change.”
• Born in London in 1958, Knight studied photography at Bournemouth & Poole College of Art and Design. He graduated with a distinction in 1982
• In 1985 his first book, Skinheads, won him the Designers and Art Directors Award for Best Book Cover
• In the late Eighties, Yohji Yamamoto’s art director Marc Ascoli commissioned Nick Knight for 12 successive catalogues – at a time when Yamamoto campaigns were among highly admired
• In 1990, he was Commissioning Picture Editor fori-D, working alongside Terry Jones (former art director of British Vogue and co-founder of i-D)
• In 1993, Knight made fashion history by adapting ring-flash photography to capture Linda Evangelista for a landmark, post-grunge cover of British Vogue
• Nick Knight has shot advertising campaigns for Jil Sander, Louis Vuitton, Calvin Klein, Yves Saint Laurent, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen and Christian Dior. He has also shot record covers for David Bowie, Paul Weller, George Michael and Massive Attack
Knight’s work has been exhibited at such institutions as the Victoria & Albert Museum, Saatchi Gallery, the Photographers Gallery and Hayward Gallery and recently Tate Modern. He has produced a permanent installation, Plant Power, for the Natural History Museum in London.
A fastidious worker, Nick Knight always wears the same outfit to shoot in – and the jeans were specially commissioned when they went out of production. Knight’s website, SHOWstudio.com, is an innovative fashion multimedia workshop which collaborates with leading creatives.
He lives in London with his wife and three children. Nick Knight was awarded the prestigious Moet Chandon Fashion Tribute for 2006, which he celebrated by throwing a masked ball at Horace Walpole’s Gothic revival treasure, Strawberry Hill.
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