The Emperors New Clothes?

May 19, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

My love affair with the Fuji X-Pro1 continues, so much so that I haven’t shot a single roll of film for the last week. I feel bad, but I think that this is the way it’s going to stay – I don’t mean I’m never going to shoot film again, I’m just going back to the way I worked a year ago – shooting both. Canada was a bit of a turning-point for me, shooting that project on film was […]

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Lenny’s Right Knee

May 15, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

This is the first in a series of articles that explores my fascination (some might say morbid fascination…) with scars. Most people have at least one. I have an eight inch long scar that runs down the left hand side on my belly which looks like a giant slug, a 30-year-old reminder not to dive into rivers without checking the depth. Some scars have an amusing story attached, mine does – as I dived into the river which hid the […]

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Publish and be damned…

May 15, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

***ALL COPIES OF THIS HAVE NOW BEEN PRE-ORDERED*** In the next few weeks I’m going to be qpublishing a selection of my Canada project photographs, mainly images shot in and around Yellowknife, but also some from much further south, in Hamilton. I’ll be presenting the images over 16 pages in a quality tabloid newspaper format (the photograph below is a sample from the printers, the shots aren’t mine). The print run will be strictly limited to 500 copies (numbered and […]

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Tomahawk

May 11, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

Rob Smith, artist and sometime actor/model – I photographed Rob as part of my ‘Scar Tissue’ project, I won’t tell you where his scar is, but I’ll give you one clue as to how he got it – Tomahawk… This isn’t the first time I’ve photographed Rob, he sat in the big leather armchair a few months ago, another project that I’m part-way through. Rob’s a great model, he knows exactly what to do, or more importantly, what not to […]

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Scar Tissue

May 9, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

This week I’ve finally started a project that I’ve been meaning to do for years, it’s an issue that’s always fascinated me – scars. I posted an update on my Facebook page asking for people with scars and a story to go with them. I was expecting to get maybe 15 or 20 people – at the time of writing this I’ve got 159 volunteers! Some of the scars are accidental, some are medical. One lady has asked me to photograph […]

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The Hamilton Diary #1

May 6, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

At the beginning of April, on my way up to Yellowknife, I stopped off in Ontario, Canada, to see Ned. Since my own brother caught the slightly earlier train two and a half years ago, Ned is the closest I have to a sibling. This was the first time I’d actually seen Ned, in the flesh, for five years, but I climbed into his van at Lester B Pearson airport and we picked-up like we’d seen each other a couple […]

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Shine a light.

May 5, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’m having a love/hate relationship with a Fuji X-Pro1 digital camera & 35mm 1.4 lens. Most of the hates are minor – the exposure compensation dial is very easy the knock out, but I solved that the way I do with a lot other other loose dials – gaffer tape. All the other hates are so minor I can’t even remember what they are…?…anyway, the BIG negative – the focusing. I did the 2.03 firmware update yesterday, the one that, […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 35mm, 50mm 1.8, black and white, camera, colour, digital, fuji X-pro1, nik, peel, personal project, portrait, siver efex pro

Film is dead, long live film.

May 1, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’ve been playing with the Fuji X-Pro1 digital camera and 35mm f1.4 lens for the last couple of days, staunch film users may want to look away, because I’m rather impressed with it… The X-Pro1 looks good, even if the picture quality was poor I’d want to keep it as a paper-weight, just to sit and look at it. But the picture quality is superb, and that unsettled me. There are hundreds of places on the internet where you can […]

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Cars and Girls…

April 30, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

Sorry, there are no girls, just cars, I needed a catchy title and ‘cars and girls’ sounded good. You were tricked, I’m afraid…but hey, while you’re here, you may as well have a look at some cars. Canada, not just Yellowknife, turns me into some kind of abandoned car enthusiast, it’s bizarre. When I’m at home I never really feel the urge to document cars of any kind, let alone ones that have been left to rot in driveways, but […]

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Canadorama

April 29, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

All Images made with a Holga 120 Pano 6x12cm camera and Fuji Acros 100 film in the Hamilton (Ontario) and Yellowknife (NWT) areas of Canada. I wasn’t going to take this camera with me, but I’m so glad I did now. The scenery, the weather, everything lent itself to grungy monochromatic images like these. It’s got me thinking about experimenting with a bit of pinhole photography… I’m starting the long process of scanning and cataloguing 70+ sheets of negatives from my […]

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