Artist Bio: David Knox’s current work combines his photography with historic imagery to create large scale, digital collages in the realm of historical fiction. Knox completed his MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005. In 2018 he won the Louisiana Contemporary Best in Show and 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 and his series, The Lost Prophets, won first place in the digital collage category. He was selected as a finalist in the LensCulture Visual Storytelling Awards in 2019 and in the Critical Mass Awards in 2021. In 2023 he received a bronze award in the Prix de la Photographie Paris for his Portrait Collage series. He has taught photography since 1996 and is represented in Louisiana by Cole Pratt Gallery in New Orleans. Artist Statement: These portrait collages are created from 3 centuries of photography and reference court paintings from the Middle Ages and early American folk art. I combine my photography with historic imagery, telling stories that, through symbolism, explore themes of nature, race, home, sexuality, religion, death and the afterlife.My interests lie in the flawed processes and alluring characters found in the daguerreotypes, tintypes, and albumen prints of early photography. The poses, expressions, attire, landscapes and architecture are among the elements I digitally combine with my photography to create these mysterious stories.