Sam Knight is a photographer from Lewes, studying a Masters degree in photography at the University of Brighton.

What is your favourite place in Sussex?

My hometown of Lewes and the surrounding peaks of the South Downs would take the number one spot.

What do you love most about living in Sussex?

The abundance of countryside and the mix of well-known and relatively hidden history that permeates the county.

One of my favourite things about Sussex at the moment is the large number of oft-forgotten World War II pillboxes still standing throughout the county, I am currently in the process of exploring their relationship to the landscape in an ongoing project.

What advice do you have for your 12-year-old self?

To make the most of where you are in life and spend less time worrying about the future.

What is your most valued possession?

Predictably my most valued possessions are made up of cameras, specifically my Mamiya RB67, which makes incredibly detailed photographs.

What is your biggest regret?

Perhaps not making enough use of great potential contacts throughout my undergraduate degree, being surrounded by likeminded people and great lecturers is something a lot of students tend to take for granted.

What is your biggest fear?

My biggest fear would be analogue methods of image-making dying out and being replaced by all digital methods.

Which five people (living or dead) would you invite to your fantasy dinner party?

This is a hard one. I think the head of the table would be William Eggleston, an absolute master of photography who brought the use of colour film and printing into the mainstream. Second would be Hideo Kojima, video game design royalty whose crazy ideas I’d love to hear in person. Then there’s Hayao Miyazaki, the creative mastermind behind many of the classic Japanese anime films of Studio Ghibli, and perhaps Katsuhiro Otomo, the director of my favourite film of all time; Akira.

Finally I think it’d be Ridley Scott, it’d be great to talk to him.