Diversity

Nick Knight is one of the few top fashion image-makers using diverse models within his personal campaigns, as an ambassador for All Walks Beyond the Catwalk he strives to achieve diverse beauty ideals within the fashion industry.

Constantly pushing the notions on beauty from race and gender to disability such as the well known American athlete Aimee Mullins.

He photographed Aimee in the editorial 'Re-Imaginging Doll' as though to pose the question why do dolls have to have 'perfect features'? Aimee is beautiful even though she doesn't have the lower half of her legs.

This is why Nick Knight is known as a contemporary photographer as he poses issues and questions within the industry but with subtly and without the cliches that some contemporary photographers present.

He's known for causing controversey within the media about beauty ideals. Take his image of Sophie Dahl in 1997 for iD magazine. It was like a taboo to use plus size models for fashion editorials. Sophie Dahl was only picked for the cover of British Vogue magazine almost 10 years after Knight's shot was published. It took the 'traditional' industry 10 years to catch up.

Shot by Regan Cameron.