Gary Knight: nobody wins a war

Gary Knight on war, evidence, and the limits of what a photographer can know. In this Eyeshot 50mm conversation the British photojournalist, co-founder of VII Photo Agency and Executive Director of The VII Foundation, explains why nobody wins a war, why he no longer needs to be the one telling other people's stories, and why he believes photojournalism has to be liberated from the press.Four decades inside conflict, from Cambodia to Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. He is harder on his own work than on anyone else's: he calls what he made in Bosnia superficial, and says that four decades in, he trusts his own certainty less than he did at the start. He talks about the ethics of proximity and the gift handed to you by the people who let you in, about founding VII on a shoestring in September 2001, about The Stringer and what happens when journalists face the questions they spend their lives asking everybody else, and about the grieving mother photograph we have all seen too many times.Gary Knight co-founded VII Photo Agency on 9 September 2001. He is Executive Director and co-founder of The VII Foundation, which runs the VII Academy and its education programmes for photographers from the majority world.Interview © Eyeshot. Gary Knight appears courtesy of The VII Foundation.Watch the full video interview on YouTube.https://youtu.be/bbTeIWcX5ZQ