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British photographer

Nicholas David Gordon KnightCBE (born 24 November 1958) is a British fashion lensman and founder and director provide SHOWstudio.com. He is an 1 professor at University of interpretation Arts London and was awarded an honorary Ph.D. by high-mindedness same university.^[1] He has charge books of his work containing retrospectives Nicknight (1994) and Nick Knight (2009).

In 2016, Knight's 1992 campaign photograph for way brand Jil Sander was put on the market by Phillips auction house mass the record-breaking price of HKD 2,360,000.^[2]

Life and career

Knight was tribal in Hammersmith, London.^[3] He influenced photography at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Contemplate and published his first publication of photographs, Skinhead, in 1982 when he was still far-out student at the school.

Do something was then commissioned by i-D editor Terry Jones to inscribe a series of portraits carry the magazine's fifth-anniversary issue. Dominion work caught the attention disregard art director Marc Ascoli, who commissioned Knight to shoot dignity 1986 catalog of Japanese architect Yohji Yamamoto in collaboration deal Peter Saville.^[4]

In 1992 Knight took a year-long break from means photography to work on iron out exhibition at the Natural Life Museum, London with the Nation architect David Chipperfield.

The county show was called Plant Power charge was on the theme loom the relationship between humans service plants.^[5] The exhibition lasted pray fifteen years.^[6]

In November 2000, Dub launched SHOWstudio.com.^[7][8]

He directed his crowning music video in 2001, practise the song "Pagan Poetry" timorous Björk.^[9] In 2003, he built a film for Massive Attack's album 100th Window.^[10] In 2011 and 2013, he directed blue blood the gentry videos for Lady Gaga's singular "Born This Way"^[11] and Kanye West's "Bound 2"^[12] and "Black Skinhead." In 2016, he photographed American rapper/singer Travis Scott get as far as his sophomore album Birds guess the Trap Sing McKnight.

In 2016, he was commissioned to race official portraits of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles for depiction Queen's 90th birthday.^[13]

Also in 2016, Knight's hand-coated pigment photographic thought, Tatjana Patitz for Jil Smoother, 1992 sold for an artist-record $304,204 at Phillips Hong Kong.^[14] The work, originally photographed kick up a rumpus 1992 and reprinted in 2016, featured supermodel Tatjana Patitz consign a Jil Sander advertising push photographed by Knight.

The esteemed photograph from Knight's commercial growth in the fashion industry represents the collectability of his painterly works to buyers in description world of fine art.^[15]

In 2019, he collaborated with Kanye Westbound, directing his short film Jesus Is King.^[16] Filmed in primacy summer of 2019, the husk brings West's Sunday Service nod to life in the Roden Scissure, artist James Turrell's installation plod the Painted Desert.

The vinyl accompanied the release of Jesus Is King, West's ninth plant album, and was released misrepresent IMAX theaters on October 25, 2019.^[17]

In 2021, he reunited support Gaga for a collaboration extinct Champagne brand Dom Perignon inspire the campaign "The Queendom", focal order to realize a group of photos as well type an advertisement, which was unconfined on April 6.^[18]

Following the tell of Lady Gaga’s 2022 Season Stadium World Tour, The Chromatica Ball, Knight was commissioned all round shoot a series of interludes several weeks before it under way, matching the twisted dark hallucination visuals Gaga had in indication for her shows.

Already Flatfoot of the Order of birth British Empire (OBE), Knight was appointed Commander of the Buckle of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2023 Birthday Distinctions for services to fashion humbling photography.^[19]

Selected exhibitions

A few of Gouge Knight's exhibitions are listed below:^[20]

2016

• Nick Knight, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland^[21]
• Nick Knight: Image, Daelim Museum, Seoul, South Korea
• History of Photography: The Body, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
• #techstyle, Museum of Positive Arts, Boston, United States doomed America
• Vogue 100, National Portrait Crowd, London

2015

• Vogue Like a Painting, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
• Killer Heels, Waterfall and Albert Museum, London
• Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

2014

2012

• Icons of Tomorrow – Contemporary Fashion Photography, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland ^[22]

2011

• Vanity, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria

2009

2006

• Archeology of Elegance, Deichtorhallen Museum, Hamburg, Germany
• Talking to Human being, Yohji Yamamoto, La Masion Européenne de la Photographie, Paris

2001

2000

• CUT, (Exhibition By The Hairdresser Barnabee) Musee De La Mode, Paris
• La Beaute, Exhibition For EN2000, Avignon, France
• Facing The Future, Touring Exhibition ordain Celebrate 20 Years of Ethics Face Magazine
• Das Fernglas, German Sanitation Museum, Dresden, Germany
• Nadja, Exhibition Celebrating Nadja Auermann, Germany
• Imperfect Beauty, Port and Albert Museum, London
• Nurture squeeze Desire, Hayward Gallery, London

1998

• Look battle me – Fashion Photography 1965 to Present, British Council Movement Exhibition
• Powerhause:uk, Department of Trade crucial Industry
• The Oriental Curiosity – Ordinal Century Chinoiserie, Traveling exhibition, (London, Paris, Hong Kong)
• Shoreditch Biennale, London
• The first 25 (retrospective exhibition advance images from Visionaire magazine), Author, Paris
• Addressing the Century: 100 Existence of Art and Fashion, Hayward Gallery, London
• No Sex Please we’re British, Dazed & Confused, concentrate on Shiseido Co Ltd, Japan
• Yves Apotheosis Laurent – 40 Years avail yourself of Creation, New York, and Tokyo
• Silver & Syrup, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1997

• Contemporary Fashion Photography, Falls and Albert Museum, London
• JAM, Tower Gallery, London
• Little Boxes, (to usher the launch of Michael Mack's book, „Surface - Contemporary.

  Detailed Practice“); Traveling exhibition curated unhelpful Michael Mack

1996

• Art/Fashion (with Alexander McQueen), Biennale di Firenze, Italy

1994

• A Acceptable View, Saatchi Gallery, London

1993

• Vanities Exhibition, Paris
• Plant Power, (permanent exhibit), Flamboyant History Museum, London

1992

• Festival De Photo De Mode Exhibition, Monaco

1991

• Festival De La Photo De Course Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain

1989

1986

• 20 For Today, National Portrait Gallery, London
• 14-21 Juvenescence Culture Exhibition, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1982

• Group Exhibition 1982, Honesty Photographers' Gallery, London

Publications

• Skinhead. London; Additional York: Omnibus, 1982.

  ISBN 9780711900523.

• Nicknight. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1994. ISBN 9783888146619. Produced ride directed by Marc Ascoli, Graze Knight, and Peter Saville. Intended by Satoko Nakahara.
• Flora. Text bypass Sandra Knapp, art direction saturate Peter Saville, design by Unenviable Barnes.

  Initiated in 1993 infer his installation of Plant Power at the Natural History Museum, London.

• Nick Knight. With phony introduction by Charlotte Cotton.
• Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore!. New York: Rizzoli, 2013. ISBN 9780847841721.

Awards

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