Characters and Cars

March 24, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

This time next week I’m heading back to the Northwest Territories of Canada to continue shooting a long-term project I’m working on in the area. I’ll be spending most of my time based in Yellowknife, but I’ll also be visiting Hay River, a 40 minute flight South from YK in a DC3 aeroplane that’s older than my dad. I’ll also be heading north, hopefully on a more modern plane, to the town of Inuvik, which is situated on the frozen […]

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Goodbye, 2012

December 23, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

…and goodbye, digital. Of all the shots I took in 2012, these are my favourites. Only the first two are digital, the rest are all taken on film – 35mm, medium format and Fuji Instax instant.

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Pikey Racing

May 23, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

All images made on a Mamiya 7II with 80mm lens using Kodak Portra 160 film.  

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We are family.

May 1, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

My offspring – Matt, Ric and Jess. We were out for a very rare family walk last week, it’s not often you see all the Kneen’s in one go! I shot two rolls of Kodak Portra on my Mamiya 7II. When we got back I noticed that I’d knocked the exposure compensation dial to  -2 stops, but I wasn’t sure when it had happened? I almost dumped both rolls. I’m glad I didn’t! I’m not doing much in the way […]

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35mm London

April 7, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I had the most fantastic long weekend in London last week with my lovely wife, Helen. We did all the tourist things – London Eye, The British Museum, The War Museum (where I saw the amazing Don McCullin photography exhibition), we ate-out and spent a lot of time in various pubs with good friends, Amber and Loz. I really didn’t want to come home! I took three cameras, a Mamiya 7II medium format, a Nikon TW20 compact and an Olympus Mju II compact and 10 rolls […]

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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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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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