Thomas Knights began his career as a music producer and performer and quickly realised he also had talent behind the camera. His many music videos for the likes of Marina And The Diamonds, Willy Moon, Karin Park and Maya Jane Coles have amassed millions of views online, and his photography has been featured in Love Magazine, Dazed And Confused and Vogue Italia.
His latest personal work ‘RED HOT’ is an ongoing project that aims to re-brand the ginger stereotype. With worldwide news and fashion press coverage from ‘The Sunday Times Style’ in the UK to ‘The New York Times’ in the US to ‘Spiegel’ In Germany and ‘Liberation’ in France; it’s often regarded as one of the most successful re-branding campaigns of recent years, and brought Thomas global recognition.
The exhibition was turned into a bestselling art book called ‘RED HOT 100’ and has toured the world with exhibitions in London, Amsterdam, New York, Sydney, Rotterdam and Berlin to date raising over 51 thousand pounds for anti-bullying charities.
Having featured on Maya Jane Coles’ album ‘Comfort’ in 2013, Thomas recently began venturing back into music, creating a dark concept album with his band 'Pandora Drive’. The first single ‘Hurricane’ is a collaboration with Swedish grammy award winner Karin Park and was premiered on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show. The track has also been featured on iD, Noisy, Thump, Billboard and Clash Magazine.
His most recent initiative is a collaboration with the Diana Awards and ASOS called “My True Selfie” which encourages people to write words over a selfie that describe who they truly are on the inside. The initial launch took place in September 2015 at The Emirates Stadium and then across a number of schools during anti-bullying week. It has subsequently been turned into an app that will launch on July 18th 2017 as a part of Princess Diana’s 20 year legacy celebrations.
Projects credited in
- Red HotRed Hot X "Red Hot invites you on the trip of a lifetime. Feast your eyes on Red Hot X, our first book in 7 years created solely for your redhead voyeuristic pleasure which will be the only ginger male nude art book in the world. A beautiful hardback coffee table book of nude male fine art photography, shot around the world and starring a huge cast of gorgeous brand new guys." Shot in 3 locations across the world, each act has its own chapter in the book and its own promotional video shot on l