(2022 - Ongoing)

‘Cruising for a Bruising’ is a long-form and ongoing project that serves as a camp love letter to the Australian Suburbs. Growing up queer in outer-metropolitan Naarm (Melbourne), Knight found the surrounding suburban landscape alienating and suffocating due to homophobic attitudes. ‘Cruising for a Bruising’ sees Knight address these past memories of estrangement. Drawing inspiration from and building on queer studies and camp aesthetics, Knight posits that humdrum suburbia can be transformed with a camp vision. Camp is personal, political, an acquisitive worldview; camp is the love of the failure. Suburbia is just like camp: good because it’s awful, endearing because it’s tacky, loveable because it’s so helpless. The resulting works celebrate suburbias unique and, at times, contradictory nature, at once surreal and mundane, humorous and humdrum. Presently, Knight now finds humour and delight through a queer camp vision that reveals a playful, joyous, and charming side of suburban Australia.

Knight’s debut photobook can be purchased through M.33 and Perimeter online.