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Nick Knight

Nick Knight

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Biography

Nick Knight is a fashion image-maker and director of SHOWstudio. Amongst the world's most influential and visionary photographers, Knight has consistently challenged conventional notions of beauty and is fêted for his groundbreaking creative collaborations with leading designers including Yohji Yamamoto, John Galliano, and Alexander McQueen. Advertising campaigns for clients such as Christian Dior, Tom Ford, Lancôme, Swarovski, Levi Strauss, Calvin Klein, and Yves Saint Laurent, as well as award-winning editorials for publications including W, British Vogue, Paris Vogue, Dazed & Confused, AnOther, Another Man and i-D, have consistently kept Knight at the vanguard of progressive image-making for the past three decades. Knight's first book of photographs, Skinheads, was published in 1982. He has since released Nicknight (1995), Nick Knight (2009), and Flora (2014), a series of flower pictures. Knight's work has been exhibited at international institutions such as the Victoria & Albert Museum, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Saatchi Gallery, The Photographers' Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Hayward Gallery. In 1997, he produced a permanent installation, Plant Power, for the Natural History Museum in London. In 2019-2020, Knight exhibited his first major still life exhibition Roses at Albion Barn, Oxford. In 2022, Knight was awarded the Master of Photography Prize by Photo London. A long-standing commitment to experimenting with the latest technologies led to Knight launching his award-winning fashion website SHOWstudio in 2000.

Known For

Elle Style Awards
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The Elle Style Awards is a prestigious annual event hosted by ELLE magazine that celebrates excellence in fashion, entertainment, and culture. Often referred to as "the Oscars of the fashion world," the ceremony honors the most stylish and influential figures, including designers, actors, musicians, and models.

Elle Style Awards

1997
Gaga Chromatica Ball
8.1

In front of a sold-out crowd of 52,000 people, Lady Gaga delivers a career-defining performance at Los Angeles's Dodger Stadium during her 2022 Chromatica Ball Tour.

Gaga Chromatica Ball

2024
Jesus Is King
4.9

Filmed during summer 2019, Jesus Is King brings Kanye West’s famed Sunday Service to life in the Roden Crater, visionary artist James Turrell’s never-before-seen installation in Arizona’s Painted Desert. This one-of-a-kind experience features songs arranged by West in the gospel tradition along with new music from his forthcoming album.

Jesus Is King

2019
Björk: Greatest Hits - Volumen 1993-2003
7.6

The visual companion of the Greatest Hits audio release, includes all Björk 21 music videos available at that moment in chronological order.

Björk: Greatest Hits - Volumen 1993-2003

2002
Playland
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Playland is a boundary-pushing, transdisciplinary, hybrid film centered around the raucous activity of a time-bending night in Boston's oldest and most notorious gay bar, the Playland Café.

Playland

2023
Left Eye
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Lady Gaga offers a glimpse from within her world of celebrity in this short film.

Left Eye

2010
Eat Fashion
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Erin O'Connor explores the meaning of fashion consumption in a short performance film.

Eat Fashion

2002
Don't Bother to Knock
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Actress and director Asia Argento created this mesmerising series of film shorts exclusively for SHOWstudio over the course of October 2006. The vignettes, drawing on an ad-hoc 'video diary' aesthetic but in fact painstakingly directed, intertwine reality with fantasy thanks to a script devised by Emma Forrest that confuses fiction with reality.

Don't Bother to Knock

2006
The Deep Web
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Knight explores the millions of layers that make up the internet and its resultant complexity. He sought to create a sense of 'things within things and layers within layers,' nodding to the multiple portals one has to navigate and find to enter the deep web.

The Deep Web

2014
Björk: Volumen Plus
6.2

Volumen Plus is an official DVD released by Björk on December 2, 2002. The DVD, whose release coincided with the release of the comprehensive Greatest Hits - Volumen 1993-2003, offers those who purchased the original Volumen release an opportunity to own the missing seven videos included on the newer release on DVD at a lower price. It includes all the videos from "Alarm Call" to "Nature Is Ancient", the latter of which being the only video on the release for which there was no corresponding single release, as the video was created only for the promotion of the Family Tree box-set.

Björk: Volumen Plus

2002
Strip
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Bobby Gillespie and Katy England swap clothes and identities in a playful fashion film.

Strip

2002
J-Walk
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This unique animation captures the celebrated strut of leading catwalk coach J. Alexander - the teacher behind Naomi Campbell's trademark walk - as he sashays and shantes his way through a modelling masterclass. Join the dots and watch Miss J. work it in this film that, even without clothes, is undeniably fashion in pure motion.

J-Walk

2000
Compulsive Viewing: The Films of Guy Bourdin
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In 2002, the Guy Bourdin Estate gave Nick Knight never-before-seen, archival cine film shot by the late photographer during the creation of some of his influential advertising and editorial fashion images. Edited and exclusively showcased by SHOWstudio, the eleven fashion films presented here are stellar examples of how a photographer’s aesthetic can translate to the medium of fashion film.

Compulsive Viewing: The Films of Guy Bourdin

2003
The More Visible They Make Me, The More Invisible I Become
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Nick Knight's fashion film explores and unpicks society's obsession with images of celebrities and our voyeuristic tendencies when it comes to icons. The film was shot in 1995 during Knight's first ever session working with Moss, who was twenty years old at the time and fast becoming a worldwide star. It features footage from security cameras - a nod to the debate and controversy that surrounded surveillance culture at the time of filming - and presents Moss going about a normal day, from waking up to visiting a Madison Avenue studio, to returning home.

The More Visible They Make Me, The More Invisible I Become

2014