The magazine of the photo-essay
August 2020 back issue
Roses from my Garden
“A free, really high quality photo-essay magazine. Fabulous!” Stephen Fry. British actor, writer and film maker
by Nick Knight
Exhibition: 4 July–25 October 2020 Waddesdon Manor
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In a career marked by longstanding relationships with Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, and having directed videos for Lady Gaga, and Kanye West, photographer Nick Knight’s constant desire to experiment, push boundaries, and challenge his audience has led him to take up a new subject, the classic rose - but expressed in an entirely new way. His Roses from my Garden series is inspired by the work of 16th and 17th century still life painters like Jan Brueghel the Elder and Jan van Huysum, but these large-scale works could not be more contemporary, dramatising the timelessness of nature. Nick Knight cuts selected roses straight from his garden and arranges them specifically, using only daylight to illuminate his subject. Photographed on an iPhone, the digital images are enlarged and filtered through software that uses AI to infill the space between pixels. What appears at first glance to be a historical approach to flower photography is actually at the very cutting edge of imaging technology.
Friday 8th June, 2018 Hand-coated pigment print © Nick Knight Courtesy of the Artist and Albion Barn
Saturday 8th August, 2015 Hand-coated pigment print © Nick Knight Courtesy of the Artist and Albion Barn
Saturday 10th October, 2015 Hand-coated pigment print © Nick Knight Courtesy of the Artist and Albion Barn
Saturday 12th October, 2019 Hand-coated pigment print © Nick Knight Courtesy of the Artist and Albion Barn
Saturday 13th May, 2017 Hand-coated pigment print © Nick Knight Courtesy of the Artist and Albion Barn
Saturday 20th May, 2017 Hand-coated pigment print © Nick Knight Courtesy of the Artist and Albion Barn
Saturday 22nd October, 2016 Hand-coated pigment print © Nick Knight Courtesy of the Artist and Albion Barn
Sunday 4th June, 2017 Hand-coated pigment print © Nick Knight Courtesy of the Artist and Albion Barn
Saturday 24th October, 2015 Hand-coated pigment print © Nick Knight Courtesy of the Artist and Albion Barn
Sunday 6th September, 2015 Hand-coated pigment print © Nick Knight Courtesy of the Artist and Albion Barn
Sunday 11th October, 2015 Hand-coated pigment print © Nick Knight Courtesy of the Artist and Albion Barn