Nick Knight Shoots Cornwall Coast for British Vogue August 2020 Cover
One of 14 landscape covers created by different artists including David Hockney and Nadine Ijewere, Knight's cover aims to be a 'moral rethink into what we're doing as a species.'
One of 14 landscape covers created by different artists including David Hockney and Nadine Ijewere, Knight's cover aims to be a 'moral rethink into what we're doing as a species.'
Nick Knight has shot one of 14 different landscape-themed covers for the August 2020 issue of British Vogue, as helmed by Edward Enninful. Accompanying David Hockney's Provence cover, and Nadine Ijewere's iPhone shot of the Isle of Skye, Knight's image sees the ocean crashing onto the Cornish coast at Port Gaverne, having been taken while he was on holiday.
In an interview with British Vogue, Knight noted that, 'all the awfulness of the pandemic has made us take a much needed step back, and consider a moral rethink into what we’re doing as a species. I am passionate that it doesn’t slip into the awful, unfair mess it was before.' As the Vogue interview notes, Knight mentioned the image's starting inspiration as the October 1945 cover–a blue sky with clouds–and that he'd seen parallels between a peaceful optimism following the end of WWII, with a similar wish for calm in the current pandemic.
Inside the issue, there is an accompanying 20-page cover story, titled All Across the Land; Knight's image shows the bridle path in Petersham, west London, looking towards Ham House from one of his daily walks.
The British Vogue Autumn 2020 issue hits newsstands on Friday 3 July 2020.