Nick Knight is among the world's most influential photographers as well as being director and founder of SHOWstudio,com, the fashion and art internet broadcasting channel. He has won numerous awards for his editorial work for Vogue, Dazed & Confused, W magazine, i-D and Visionaire, as well as for fashion and advertising projects for clients including Christian Diro, Alexander Mcqueen, Calvin Klien, Levi Strauss, Yohji Yamamoto and Yves Saint Laurent. On the 24th October 2006, Nick Knight was awarded the prestigious Moet Chandon Fashion Tribute for 2006.
Nick also has an obvious mordancy to have his subjects filling the page, or flowing from it, keeping his portraits looking large and busy. Nick uses a feminine style of photographing, using soft lines and colours, and exploring the female body in a range of forms and sizes, In many of his portraits a usage of wind has been used to create a flowing movement of wind, which adds to the light, feminine feel of his photographs.
As a fashion photographer, Nick Knight has consistently challenged conventional notions of beauty. His first book of photographs, Skinheads, was published in 1982. He has since produced Nicknight, a 12 year retrospective, and Flora, a series of flower pictures. Knight's work has been exhibited at such institutes as the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Photographers Gallery and recently Tate Modern. He has produced a permanent installation, Plant power, for the Natural History Museum in London.
Nick night is top of the celebrity 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 ideas of beauty.
He once said: 'I don't want to reflect social change - I want to cause social change.'
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