Knight left higher education midway through his first year and started to travel in Europe and the Middle East.

He began working as a photographer in the late 1980s in South East Asia and Indochina from his home in Bangkok, Thailand.

In 2010 he founded and was the Director of the Program for Narrative & Documentary Practice at the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University until he resigned in 2018 to create and develop the VII Academy which he now runs.

The VII Academy is a non-profit institution which provides tuition free education in media practice to the majority world and underrepresented communities in G20 countries from its campuses in Arles, France and Sarajevo, Bosnia.

Knight was naturalized as an American in July 2020 and is a dual citizen of Great Britain and the United States of America.