The Lost Prophets
These portrait collages depict an arcane netherworld set in the mid19th century American South. Created in the realm of historical fiction, they portray the forsaken prophets of a lost war, adrift in the destruction of ruined cities, abandoned fields and remote backwoods.
In creating these portrait collages I combine elements from historical images with my own photography. Each piece contains approximately one hundred layers which are digitally sized, blended and collaged into a single, large scale image.
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Biography
Knox’s current work combines his photography with historic imagery creating large digital collages. He completed his MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005. In 2018 he won the Louisiana Contemporary Helis Foundation Art Prize at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. In 2019 he was awarded the Fine Art Photographer of the Year by the International Photography Awards. Knox was a finalist in the Critical Mass Awards in 2021 and received a bronze award in the 2023 Prix de la Photographie Paris and a gold award in 2024 in collage/Fine Art. He is represented by several galleries in the South.
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Awards
Prix de la Photographie Paris, PX3, Gold award Fine Art/Collage, Paris France, August 2024.
International Photography Awards 2024, 2nd Place Fine Art Collage, Tableaux Montage Series; New York, 2024
Prix de la Photographie Paris, bronze award for Digital Collage. 2023
Finalist, Critical Mass 200. August, 2021
2019 International Photo Awards, Fine Art Photographer of the Year, The Lost Prophets series, September 2019
2019 International Photo Awards, First Place, Fine Art, Collage; The Lost Prophet series, September 2019
LensCulture Visual Storytelling Awards 2019, Finalist, Imaginative Storytelling
The Louisiana Contemporary Helis Foundation award, Best of Show; The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 2018
