- Gary Knight
Gary Knight, born on
Oakham ,England in 1964. began working as a photographer in the late 1980s inSouth East Asia andIndochina from his home inBangkok, Thailand where he lived with photographersPhilip Blenkinsop ,Emmanuel Dunand andThierry 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 ofAfghanistan , the civil war inKashmir and the AsianTsunami 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 theUnited 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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