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Nick KnightOBE (born 1958) is a British fashion photographer and founder and director of SHOWstudio.com. He is an honorary professor at University of the Arts London and was awarded an honorary Ph.D. by the same university. He has produced books of his work including retrospectives Nicknight (1994) and Nick Knight (2009). In 2016, Knight's 1992 campaign photograph for fashion brand Jil Sander was sold by Phillips auction house at the record-breaking price of HKD 2,360,000.
Knight studied photography at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design and published his first book of photographs 'Skinhead' in 1982 when he was still a student at the school. He was then commissioned by i-D editor Terry Jones to create a series of portraits for magazine's fifth-anniversary issue. His work caught the attention of art director Marc Ascoli, who commissioned Knight to shoot the 1986 catalog of Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto in collaboration with Peter Saville.
In 1992 Knight took a year long break from fashion photography to work on an exhibition at Natural History Museum, London with the British architect David Chipperfield. The exhibition was called Plant Power and was on the theme of the relationship between humans and plants. The exhibition lasted for fifteen years.
Imperfect Beauty, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
Revolver, MTV Music Awards Exhibition, Stockholm, Sweden
Nurture and Desire, Hayward Gallery, London, Great Britain
1998
Look at me – Fashion Photography 1965 to Present, British Council Traveling Exhibition
powerhause::uk; Department of Trade and Industry
The Oriental Curiosity – 21st Century Chinoiserie, Traveling exhibition, (London, Paris, Hong Kong)
Shoreditch Biennale, London, Great Britain
Handy Shorts, Lux Cinema, London, Great Britain
The first 25 (retrospective exhibition of images from Visionaire magazine), Colette, Paris, France
Addressing the Century: 100 Years of Art and Fashion, Hayward Gallery, London, Great Britain
Taboo; Creative Review, London, Great Britain
No Sex Please we’re British, Dazed & Confused, and Shiseido Co Ltd, Japan
Yves Saint Laurent – 40 Years of Creation, New York, and Tokyo
Silver & Syrup, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
H20, Kobe Fashion Museum, Japan
1997
Contemporary Fashion Photography, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
JAM, Barbican Gallery, London, Great Britain
Little Boxes, (to accompany the launch of Michael Mack’s book, „Surface - Contemporary. Photographic Practice“); Traveling exhibition curated by Michael Mack
1996
Art/Fashion (with Alexander McQueen), Biennale di Firenze, Italy
1994
A Positive View, Saatchi Gallery, London, Great Britain
Festival De La Photo De Mode Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain
1989
Out of Fashion, Photographers Gallery, London, Great Britain
Ils Annoncent La Colour, Les Rencontres D’Arles, Holly
Solomon Gallery, New York, United States
1986
20 For Today, National Portrait Gallery, London, Great Britain
14-21 Youth Culture Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
1982
Group Exhibition 1982, Photographers Gallery, London, Great Britain
Publications
Skinhead. London; New York: Omnibus, 1982. ISBN 9780711900523.
Nicknight. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1994. ISBN 9783888146619. Produced and directed by Marc Ascoli, Nick Knight, and Peter Saville. Written by Satoko Nakahara.
