Gary Knight
Encyclopedia
Gary Knight was born in 1964 in Oakham
, England
and was raised in the village of Knowle
in the West Midlands
. He attended Arden School
and Solihull Sixth Form College
. He left higher education mid way through his first year and started to travel in Europe and the Middle East. He began working as a photographer in the late 1980s in South East Asia and Indochina
from his home in Bangkok, Thailand, where he lived variously with photographers Philip Blenkinsop, Emmanuel Dunand and Thierry Falise and writers Alan Pearce and Robert Birsel. He is married to Fiona Turner and has two children, Sophie and Sam.
where he became involved in documenting war crimes and crimes against humanity during the civil war. During this period he covered conflicts in Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans and worked widely in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia and the Far East (including North Korea) concentrating either on Human Rights and Poverty based issues or current affairs stories for US or European media.
In 2000 with John Stanmeyer
he conceived the VII Photo Agency
which was launched in 2001. VII was named as the third most influential entity in photography by American Photo Magazine in 2003. In 2005 Knight and a group of friends founded the Angkor Photo Festival and Angkor Photo Workshops to support emerging photographers from Asia. In 2008 he founded with Simba Gill and Mort Rosenblum
the print periodical Dispatches. In recent years Knight has covered the invasion of Iraq
, the occupation of Afghanistan
, the civil war in Kashmir
and the Asian Tsunami
amongst other stories but central to his work is a commitment to address the issues that determine the survival of the world’s poor and other Human Rights issues.
His work has been widely published by media all over the world, including Newsweek
, Time
, The Sunday Times
, The New York Times
, Paris Match
, Stern
and National Geographic. His work has been 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. He teaches a small number of photography workshops every year, principally in India and Cambodia: (http://www.rethink-dispatches.com/workshops/). He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University
and an INSPIRE Scholar at Tufts University
in 2010. Knight lectures on photography and journalism at Tufts University
where he founded and is the Director of the Program for Narrative & Documentary Practice. He resides in Cambridge
, Massachusetts
.
Founder of dispatches
with Mort Rosenblum
and Simba Gill in 2008.
Founder and Director of the Program for Narrative & Documentary Practice at Tufts University. Massachusetts. USA.
2010 Nieman Fellow at Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
.
INSPIRE Scholar at Tufts University
2010, 2011.
Lecturer at the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University
, Boston.
Chairman of the World Press Photo
Award 2008 and Jury member in 2004 and 2006.
Vice President of the Pierre and Alexandra Boulat Foundation.
Chairman of the WHO
/Stop TB Photography Advisory Board 2009 to present.
Founder of the Angkor Photo Festival.
Former Board member of the Crimes of War Foundation.
Former Trustee of the Indochina Media Memorial Foundation.
Contract photographer for Newsweek Magazine from 1999 to present.
Recipient of many awards in Asia, Europe and the United States.
Juror on numerous media juries in Europe and the United States.
Tsunami by de-Mo (2005)
Congo, The Forgotten War , by de-Mo (2005)
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)
Oakham
-Oakham's horseshoes:Traditionally, members of royalty and peers of the realm who visited or passed through the town had to pay a forfeit in the form of a horseshoe...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
and was raised in the village of Knowle
Knowle
Knowle is a large village a few miles southeast of the town of Solihull, UK. Knowle lies within the historic county boundaries of Warwickshire, and since 1974 it has been part of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull within the West Midlands...
in the West Midlands
West Midlands (county)
The West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a 2009 estimated population of 2,638,700. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The...
. He attended Arden School
Arden School
Arden School is a co-educational secondary school located in the village of Knowle near Solihull in the West Midlands, United Kingdom. It has had specialist language status since 1996....
and Solihull Sixth Form College
Solihull Sixth Form College
The Sixth Form College, Solihull is a further education college for students aged 16 to 19. It is situated on the outskirts of Solihull, West Midlands and draws students from across Solihull and Birmingham...
. He left higher education mid way through his first year and started to travel in Europe and the Middle East. He began working as a photographer in the late 1980s in South East Asia and Indochina
Indochina
The Indochinese peninsula, is a region in Southeast Asia. It lies roughly southwest of China, and east of India. The name has its origins in the French, Indochine, as a combination of the names of "China" and "India", and was adopted when French colonizers in Vietnam began expanding their territory...
from his home in Bangkok, Thailand, where he lived variously with photographers Philip Blenkinsop, Emmanuel Dunand and Thierry Falise and writers Alan Pearce and Robert Birsel. He is married to Fiona Turner and has two children, Sophie and Sam.
Career
In January 1993 he moved to the former YugoslaviaYugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
where he became involved in documenting war crimes and crimes against humanity during the civil war. During this period he covered conflicts in Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans and worked widely in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia and the Far East (including North Korea) concentrating either on Human Rights and Poverty based issues or current affairs stories for US or European media.
In 2000 with John Stanmeyer
John Stanmeyer
John Stanmeyer , is a celebrated American photojournalist based in Otis, Massachusetts.He is best known for his contributions to TIME Magazine and National Geographic. His work centered on Asian and Middle-Eastern political and human rights issues for the past 11 years and more recently on the...
he conceived the VII Photo Agency
VII Photo Agency
VII is a photo agency representing 30+ photojournalists, known for its focus on conflict photography. This collective employs a three tier system: members, non-members and mentorees, titles which reflect the level of service and commitment provided by the company to the photographers.VII derives...
which was launched in 2001. VII was named as the third most influential entity in photography by American Photo Magazine in 2003. In 2005 Knight and a group of friends founded the Angkor Photo Festival and Angkor Photo Workshops to support emerging photographers from Asia. In 2008 he founded with Simba Gill and Mort Rosenblum
Mort Rosenblum
Mort Rosenblum is an American author, editor and journalist.-Biography:Rosenblum joined the Associated Press at Newark in 1965. His international career began in 1967, when the AP sent him to cover mercenary wars in Congo. Since then Rosenblum has run AP bureaus in Kinshasa, Lagos, Kuala Lumpur,...
the print periodical Dispatches. In recent years Knight has covered the invasion of Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
, the occupation of Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...
, the civil war in Kashmir
Kashmir
Kashmir is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir geographically denoted only the valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal mountain range...
and the Asian Tsunami
Tsunami
A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, typically an ocean or a large lake...
amongst other stories but central to his work is a commitment to address the issues that determine the survival of the world’s poor and other Human Rights issues.
His work has been widely published by media all over the world, including Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
, Time
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
, The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper.The Sunday Times may also refer to:*The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times...
, The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, Paris Match
Paris Match
Paris Match is a French weekly magazine. It covers major national and international news along with celebrity lifestyle features. It was founded in 1949 by the industrialist Jean Prouvost....
, Stern
Stern (magazine)
Stern is a weekly news magazine published in Germany. It was founded in 1948 by Henri Nannen, and is currently published by Gruner + Jahr, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann. In the first quarter of 2006, its print run was 1.019 million copies and it reached 7.84 million readers according to...
and National Geographic. His work has been 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. He teaches a small number of photography workshops every year, principally in India and Cambodia: (http://www.rethink-dispatches.com/workshops/). He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
and an INSPIRE Scholar at Tufts University
Tufts University
Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
in 2010. Knight lectures on photography and journalism at Tufts University
Tufts University
Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
where he founded and is the Director of the Program for Narrative & Documentary Practice. He resides in Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
.
Accomplishments
Founder of VII Photo Agency in 2001.Founder of dispatches
Dispatches (magazine)
Dispatches is a quarterly magazine founded in 2008 by photographer Gary Knight, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum, and pharmaceutical executive Dr. Simba Gill....
with Mort Rosenblum
Mort Rosenblum
Mort Rosenblum is an American author, editor and journalist.-Biography:Rosenblum joined the Associated Press at Newark in 1965. His international career began in 1967, when the AP sent him to cover mercenary wars in Congo. Since then Rosenblum has run AP bureaus in Kinshasa, Lagos, Kuala Lumpur,...
and Simba Gill in 2008.
Founder and Director of the Program for Narrative & Documentary Practice at Tufts University. Massachusetts. USA.
2010 Nieman Fellow at Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
.
INSPIRE Scholar at Tufts University
Tufts University
Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
2010, 2011.
Lecturer at the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University
Tufts University
Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...
, Boston.
Chairman of the World Press Photo
World Press Photo
World Press Photo is an independent, non-profit organization based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Founded in 1955 the organization is known for holding the world's largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest....
Award 2008 and Jury member in 2004 and 2006.
Vice President of the Pierre and Alexandra Boulat Foundation.
Chairman of the WHO
Who
Who may refer to:* Who , an English-language pronoun* who , a Unix command* Who?, one of the Five Ws in journalism- Art and entertainment :* Who? , a 1958 novel by Algis Budrys...
/Stop TB Photography Advisory Board 2009 to present.
Founder of the Angkor Photo Festival.
Former Board member of the Crimes of War Foundation.
Former Trustee of the Indochina Media Memorial Foundation.
Contract photographer for Newsweek Magazine from 1999 to present.
Recipient of many awards in Asia, Europe and the United States.
Juror on numerous media juries in Europe and the United States.
Selected Group Books
"Questions without Answers", by Phaidon Press (2011)Tsunami by de-Mo (2005)
Congo, The Forgotten War , by de-Mo (2005)
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)