200 Portraits ~ Nick Knight

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of i-D magazine, Nick Knight mirrored his 1985 '100 Portraits' series and photographed 200 of the most important people in fashion, music and culture today. Alongside the photographic portraits, Knight created a series of unique video portraits of each sitter during this landmark seventeen-day shoot. Each week, SHOWstudio.com will launch a new selection of video portraits captured on a specific date, the series as a whole documenting not only this shoot but a slice of twenty-first century culture.

Photographer Profile ~ Photographer Nick Knight.

Knight's first book of photographs, 'Skinheads', was published in 1982, when he was a 24-year-old photography student at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design. He was then commissioned by i-D editor Terry Jones to create a series of 100 portraits for the magazine's fifth anniversary issue. As a result of those black-and-white portraits, his work caught the attention of art director Marc Ascoli, who commissioned Knight to shoot the 1986 catalogue of avant-gard Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto in collaboration with renowned graphic designer Peter Saville. Since this first foray into fashion photography, he has shot both editorial and advertising projects for clients including Alexander McQueen, Audi, Calvin Klein, Christian Dior, Jil Sander, Lancôme, Levi Strauss, Martine Sitbon, Mercedes-Benz, Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, Swarovski and Yves Saint Laurent. (*wikipidia)