Bio - david knight photography

<body> <h1> | david knight photography</h1> <h2>david knight photography</h2> <div>David Knight is an advertising photographer with nearly 20 years experience based in Sydney Australia</div> <span class="links"><a href="index.html" target="_top"><font color="#989898">Home</font></a></span>   <span class="links"><strong><a href="portfolio.html" target="_top"><font color="#555555">Projects</font></a></strong></span>   <span class="links"><a href="content.html?page=1" target="_top"><font color="#989898">Bio</font></a></span>   <span class="links"><a href="content.html?page=2" target="_top"><font color="#989898">Awards</font></a></span>   <span class="links"><a href="content.html?page=3" target="_top"><font color="#989898">Contact</font></a></span>   <span class="links"><a href="content.html?page=4" target="_top"><font color="#989898">Press/ Magazine Articles</font></a></span>   <span class="links"><a href="content.html?page=5" target="_top"><font color="#989898">CV</font></a></span> <div> <p> DAVID KNIGHT (b. 1971)</p> <p> Born in Oxford, England, David Knight has carved out a nearly 20-year professional photographic career that has taken him on assignment to some of the world’s most interesting places. His camera has captured everything from keyhole surgery on a racehorse belonging to Dubai’s Sheik Mohamed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, to various facets of the ordinary human face and form, these images garnering awards and making the shortlist at international photographic competitions along the way.</p> <p> Knight did an art foundation course at North Oxfordshire College, before continuing his creative education with a photography course at Cheltenham and Gloucestershire College in England, where he studied advertising and editorial photography. In 1995, he moved to Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, where he worked on a range of photographic assignments, from advertising to aerial work from helicopters, over a four-year period.  His assignments during this period took him throughout the seven Emirates of the U.A.E, as well as to Oman, Bahrain, Yemen, Kuwait, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia. Leaving Dubai in 1998, he relocated to Australia, where he has continued his photographic career. He has an extensive commercial portfolio of work for a range of major advertising agencies including Saatchi & Saatchi, Ogilvy & Mather and Leo Burnett’s, for blue-chip clients such as Canon, Toyota, Visa, Virgin, Mitsubishi, Qantas and The United Nations.</p> <p> In recent years, Knight has also branched out into more personal images and projects, primarily intimate, often melancholy and very distinctive portraits of people and landscapes – areas that fuel his creative passions.  </p> <p> Knight’s images have gained many creative plaudits. In 2009, he was a finalist in the prestigious Moran Contemporary Photography Prize. A Saatchi & Saatchi United Nations campaign was awarded Bronze at Cannes in 2008 while another project he was involved in for Leo Burnett achieved Bronze at Cannes in 2009. He was a finalist in the Australian National Photographic Portrait Prize in 2007. He was also a finalist in the Olive Cotton Award, with his work shown as part of an exhibition at  the Tweed Heads Regional Gallery in Queensland.</p> <p> Knight’s work has twice hung in The National Portrait Gallery, London, and once in The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, and been featured in books and magazines, including D&AD 2009, Campaign Brief and Creative Review. His images have been showcased in several exhibitions, including group shows at The Assembly Rooms and the Calumet Gallery in London, in 2009, and the Moran Contemporary Photography Prize at the State Library in Sydney, also in 2009. His images were also showcased in a solo exhibition hosted by Saatchi & Saatchi in Sydney in 2007.</p> <p> Knight work was featured on the ABC’s Sunday Arts program in 2007 as part of a documentary on The 2007 Australian National Photographic Portrait Prize. Knights work also featured in ProPhoto magazine, April 2010, with a 4 page feature article and the cover.</p> <p> Knight continues work on his various projects, with two projects currently underway.</p> <link href="file://localhost/Users/davidknight/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip1/01/clip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List" /> <style type="text/css"> </style> <h2> <span style="font-size: 12px;"><br /> </span></h2> <p class="NormalWeb1">  </p> <p class="NormalWeb1">  </p> <p class="NormalWeb1"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div> </body>