May 30, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

“An artist’s career can be segmented by moments when there is the realization of a need for change or the necessity to shake off the rust and webs that develop after reaching that unchallenged place of comfort” – Domenico Foschi, photographer. I discovered this quote a few days ago, as soon as I read it I realised that I’m in that place, that unchallenged place of comfort. But it was a revelation, bordering on an epiphany, I’d go as far […]

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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 publishing 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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Who knew?

April 25, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

I recently read an article in The British Journal of Photography that Sebastião Salgado, arguably the worlds finest photojournalist, now shoots all of his work on digital, the article amazed me, not the fact that Seb has finally caught-up with technology, but his working process – he shoots his images on digital cameras, then edits the files using DxO film pack, a £75 software, to put a Kodak Tri-X black and white ‘look’ on the images. Most photographers would leave […]

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Hong Kong Delight

March 29, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

  For the last couple of weeks I’ve been shooting with a Holga 120 PAN 6x12cm film camera. I like the 6×12 format, but can’t really justify the £4000 for a secondhand Linhoff version. This Chinese incarnation of the camera is all plastic, including the lens, and cost a mere £69. I’ve had varying degrees of success it – I can’t quite work-out what the closest focus distance actually is? In the instructions it says 1 metre on one page […]

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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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R.I.P, Miss Holga…

March 9, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

I smashed my Holga beyond repair today, even duct tape couldn’t save it. I went to kneel down to take a photograph, as I did I dropped the camera and kneeled on it, my full seventeen and a half stone concentrated on the Holga with the road beneath. It stood no chance whatsoever, the lens pushed into the body, smashing it in to about ten pieces. I’d claim on the insurance, but hey, I can get a new one for […]

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Downtime.

February 20, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

I had so many plans for the last couple of weeks, I was going to work on ‘The Old Leather Chair’ project, get a load of shots done, but it was not to be. I’ve been struck down by some hideous virus which has rendered me completely immobile for the last two weeks, at least. I normally handle ‘downtime’ quite well, if it’s just a head cold I can still work and even when I slipped a disc in my […]

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Less is more.

February 13, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

For the last couple of weeks I’ve been sorting-out what gear to take, or more accurately, what gear NOT to take to Canada in 6 weeks time. I took far too much gear last time, too many different formats and 4 different types of film. I was shooting on 6x7cm, 6×4.5cm, 35mm and Fuji Instax instant film, using colour and black and white with 3 different film speeds. In April I’m taking a Mamiya 7II, 80mm lens, a sekonic light […]

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Canadian Mono

January 2, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’ve been scanning negatives for weeks, literally, stuck in my basement with 119 sheets of developed medium format film that I shot in Canada last September. I started with the important stuff, mostly shot on 6x7cm colour film, it’s amazing what I’d forgotten. I shot quite a bit of personal stuff in Yellowknife alongside the project work. I shot most of this with black and white film (Kodak Tri-X 400) using a Mamiya 645 Pro TL camera. I’m just getting […]

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High Resolutions

January 1, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

Happy New Year! I’m not a great one for making New Years resolutions, drinking less, losing weight and getting fit are things I tend to procrastinate about all year round. What I do intend to do though, in 2013, is shoot only the photographs that I want to shoot. Toward the end of last year I started to take less and less commercial work, I shot my last wedding in October. This has been deliberate, I realised that certain types […]

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