Artist Blog

Every week an artist whose single image was published by Der Greif is given a platform in which to blog about contemporary photography.

"From the very first day that I meet my partner Peter, I started taking photographs of us together. Chamber Music depicts a couple in a very frank and intimate manner, capturing the patterns of the quotidian in their lives. This work for me is as much about the touch perceived between the two subjects and their world, as it is the potential for touch between the photograph and the viewer. The situation of sight here becomes the rite of contact. This visual contact between viewer and viewed, I would say, is the basis for the political dimension of the work and to activate this, the subjects make themselves vulnerable in the space of the photograph. Born in Sydney in 1976, Paul Knight graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne, Australia) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (hons) in photography in 2001. In 2007 Knight was awarded the Ann & Gordon Samstag Traveling Visual Arts Scholarship, which led him to the Glasgow School of Art (Scotland, United Kingdom) where he graduated with a Master of Fine Art degree in 2009. Knight now lives and works in London UK. Amongst others, Knight has exhibited at the A Foundation (London), Cornerhouse (Manchester), Chelsea Art Museum (New York), the Palazzo Delle Arti (Naples) and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. In 2009 Knight was selected for the New Contemporaries exhibitions (UK) and won the William and Winifred Bowness Photography prize at the Monash gallery of Art (Australia) and in 2010 Knight presented a solo exhibition in the Open Space section at the 44th Art Cologne (Germany) and his work was the subject of a documentary commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation entitled Nerve. In 2012, Knight in collaboration with Tobias Yves Zintel presented the performance project, The Genetic Drive at the Glasgow International Festival for Visual Arts (UK)."