Gary Knight

Gary Knight

Gary Knight, born on Oakham, England in 1964. began working as a photographer in the late 1980s in South East Asia and Indochina from his home in Bangkok, Thailand where he lived with photographers Philip Blenkinsop, Emmanuel Dunand and Thierry Falise.

Career

In January 1993 he moved to the former Yugoslavia where he became involved in documenting war crimes and crimes against humanity during the civil war.

In recent years Knight has covered the invasion of Iraq, the occupation of Afghanistan, the civil war in Kashmir and the Asian Tsunami but central to his work is a commitment to address the issues that determine the survival of the world’s poor.

His work has been widely published by magazines all over the world, exhibited worldwide and is in the collections of several museums and private collectors. Knight has initiated a broad programme of education with Universities and NGO’s worldwide and is the author of several essays on journalism and photography.

Accomplishments

Founder of VII Photo Agency [www.viiphoto.com]

Founder of a quarterly publication called Dispatches with Mort Rosenblum and Simba Gill

Founder of the Angkor Photo Festival [www.angkorphotofestival.com]

Board member of the Crimes of War Foundation [www.crimesofwar.org]

Trustee of the Indochina Media Memorial Foundation [www.immf.org]

Contract photographer for Newsweek Magazine [ www.newsweek.com]

Recipient of many awards in Asia, Europe and the United States.

MonographEvidence - War Crimes in Kosovo, de-Mo, 2002. [www.theevidenceproject.com]

Selected Group Books.Tsunami by de-Mo 2005Congo, The Forgotten War by de-Mo 2005 [http://www.pillandpillow.com/msfCongo/mainEng.html] Rethink by de-Mo 2004.War by VII published by de-Mo 2003.The Eye of War published by Orion 2003.Sarajevo published by Naythons, 1993.


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