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Flora by Nick Knight @ SHOWstudio’s London gallery

Flora by Nick Knight @ SHOWstudio’s London gallery Oktober 28, 2012art & design, events & exhibitions, photography0 Comments

“For the past three decades Nick Knight has defined the cultural vision of a generation. Consistently challenging conventional notions of beauty, Knight has reinterpreted the boundaries of contemporary fashion photography. In groundbreaking collaborations with an array of leading designers including Yohji Yamamoto and Alexander McQueen, he has shaped many of the iconic images that fill our minds through magazines, books, record albums, and music videos.” (quote by SHOWstudio) You know him from stunning projects with Daphne Guinness, Gareth Pugh and other avant-garde personalities. And now he’s here to surprise us with something… Totally different. Over three years Nick Knight studied flower specimens and almost locked himself up in a herbarium.

“Going through the 6.5 million specimens in the Natural History Museum was not only intense because it took my wife and I three and a half years, but it was also an extraordinary project because the act of capturing each of our most favorite discoveries was rigorous,” Nick Knight tells Style.com of the project, entitled Flora. “In the end [we] edited it down to just 40 individual images.” (Originally, the shots were part of his now out-of-print book by the same name—he’s picked out 15 images from the acclaimed publication to be displayed for the first time at SHOWstudio’s headquarters in London’s Mayfair.) “Because we (understandably) weren’t allowed to remove any of the flora from the museum, we ended up converting an area the size of a broom cupboard in the 131-year-old building into a studio space,” Knight adds.

Since 11 October you can see the results of Nick Knight‘s research at SHOWstudio’s London gallery at 1 – 9 Bruton Place. The exhibition will continue until 21 December 2012.