Gary Knight

Who is Gary Knight?

Gary Knight 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.

He 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.