Summertime blues.

March 25, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

It’s the first day of British summertime today, the clocks have gone an hour forward, robbing me of a precious 60 minutes of sleep and upsetting my delicate body-clock. I still don’t understand, at 42 years old, why we have to adjust the clocks back and forward every year?Anyway, it’s been summer on the Isle of Man for a few days now, which is lucky, because the passenger side window of my car has been jammed open for the past […]

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The £1000 film look.

March 22, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I get asked, at least once a week “What camera should I buy? I’ve got about a grand to spend” Well, you could go and buy a nice Canon EOS 600D and add a perfectly usable lens, maybe you’ll have enough left over for a little bag too. In a year, one of two things will have happened – you’ll have got bored/disillusioned with digital because it doesn’t quite give you that ‘look’ you keep seeing OR you’ll have got […]

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Ric

March 21, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

Whenever I get the urge to stop shooting film, I look at this image of my son, Ric. Digital has its place, but it’s not here, not today… MY FLICKR

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People/1:01

March 17, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

  I’ve never really had the patience for filmmaking, it’s something I’ve always been interested in, I’ve dipped my toe into it over the years, but stills photography always wins my attention. I’ve constantly been unable to focus my creative interest into two things at once, I suppose it’s a good and a bad thing? Over the past two or three weeks I’ve been a bit ‘static’ due to back problems, this has had the hidden bonus of allowing me […]

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Michael

March 14, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

Michael Cooke has lived, part-time, in South-west France since 2006 in a small village on the Dordogne River. Michael has muscular dystrophy, a muscle wasting condition which only gets worse, this has made the 1500 mile round-trip from the Midlands of England more and more difficult as time goes by. Add to this the increase in fuel costs and the general rise in the cost of living on the continent and you’ll understand why Michael has decided to pack and […]

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The Fixer.

March 2, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

If I’m ever away in a far-flung corner of the World, shooting a job for National Geographic magazine, and I get kidnapped by bandits….Actually, I’m going to start this piece again, but this time with a more realistic scenario – If I’m ever away in some seedy backwater of Eastern Europe, shooting a bizarre project idea that came to me in a dream, and I get arrested and thrown in jail for starting a drunken bar fight, the first person […]

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