Rain stops play.

January 29, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’m going to be working with two very talented young musicians, Adam Jones and Geoff Tinkler, over the next couple of weeks. I had a brace of location shots planned for our first session, but biblical rain put pay to those plans. I think I actually saw Noahs Arc going past the studio at one point. We ended-up just doing some informal, naturally lit portrait shots. I think these chaps will go far on looks alone…you heard it here first. […]

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A Very Very Bad Man

January 29, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’ve taken a lot of photos of Simon Campbell, a LOT, but this is my favourite, thus far. Taken on a borrowed Mamiya RZ67 using Kodak T-Max 400 film. My questionable exposure on the day has produced a nice contrasty image, which I often strive for, but only ever seem to produce accidentally.

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One day in France

January 20, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

The photos below were all taken with one roll of film between  1pm  on Friday 6th and Saturday 7th of January 2012 between Paris and Bergerac, France. I used a cheap Nikon TW20 compact from the late 80′s (still brand new, still sealed in the box after 20+ years) and one roll of Kodak Portra 160. All the images are totally unaltered (even the one above of the pampas grass that looks like a negative) I know I keep banging-on […]

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35mm

January 19, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I haven’t used a 35mm camera for a while, when I’m shooting film I shoot medium format. A couple of weeks ago I borrowed a Nikon FM3a camera, it’s a beautiful piece of kit. I only managed to shoot a couple of rolls before I had to give the camera back to Simon Campbell, the new and rightful owner (Simon has just been sucked into the addictive world of film photography) All shots – Nikon FM3a, 35mm f2 AIS lens […]

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He who pays the piper…

January 8, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

Have you ever sat and watched someone selecting songs on a jukebox? I often wonder if the person is choosing the songs that they actually like, or are they choosing the songs that they want everyone else in the bar to think they like? I see it at parties too, there’s always the self-designated iPod DJ who sits in the same place all night, frightened to leave his 16 gigabytes of music unattended in case someone finds, amongst the cool […]

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Froggy went a courtin’…

January 5, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’m off to France tonight, land of cheese and wine, I’m meeting with a photo agency in Bordeaux, South West France, to put a couple of project ideas forward. They’re buying lunch, so I assume they’re interested. After the meeting I’m going to sleep for a week, when I’m not sleeping, I’m going to be taking photos. On the road from Bergerac to Perigueux there’s a chap who stands in his garden all day, half naked, I’d like to photograph him. […]

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Man in the mirror

January 1, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

Something happened to me last year that has never happened in all the 25 years I’ve been taking photos, and it didn’t just happen once. In 2011 I was asked, three times, to remove portraits that I’d taken from public view. The first two photos were of two different people, but taken on the same day, in the same place, striking almost exactly the same pose. One was of my very close friend, Simon Campbell, it was pretty unflattering, to […]

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