Gary Knight (Editorial Director) is the principal architect and founder of the VII photo agency and the director and co-founder of the VII Foundation. He began his career as a photojournalist in southeast Asia in the late 1980s and has covered most major global conflicts since, including the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Knight is a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He has chaired World Press Photo twice, was a brand Ambassador for Canon for ten years, and in 2018 founded the VII Academy to train students from the majority world in documentary practice. He was the director and founder of the Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice at Tufts University. Knight’s exposure to war was the catalyst for this exploration into post-conflict societies and analysis of what it takes to build and keep the peace. He is an articulate, impassioned, and charismatic speaker. Other journalists from the project will be available for interviews.