Gary Knight (1964) is a British photographer, architect and co-founder of the VII Photo Agency and Director of the Program for Narrative & Documentary Practice, a program of the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University in the USA.

Life and work

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. Knight 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.

In January 1993, Knight moved to the former Yugoslavia 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.

Gary Albert Knight (born 26 August 1951) is a former New Zealand rugby union player and amateur wrestler.

Rugby union

A prop, Knight represented Horowhenua and Manawatu at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1977 to 1986. He played 66 matches for the All Blacks including 36 internationals.

Wrestling

Knight competed for New Zealand in the super heavyweight (+100 kg) division of freestyle wrestling at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, winning the bronze medal.

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