Simply The Best?

May 25, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

I was talking to a college student this week, I asked him why I hadn’t seen any of his work recently, his reply bemused me – “I’m getting a Canon 5D mark three in a few weeks, so I’m not shooting anything until I get that, it’s like ten times better than the camera I’m using now…I want to shoot my ideas on the best kit…should I get the seventy to two-hundred?” Amazing. This talented young artist has actually put […]

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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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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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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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Road-trippin’ with Holga

April 28, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

My two favourite pastimes – photography and road-trips, they go hand in hand. Road tripping in the Northwest Territories of Canada is fairly simple, because there really aren’t that many roads, but they are VERY long roads. I didn’t actually drive that far, just Yellowknife to Rae/Edzo, I was in a truck that my most excellent friend, and fellow photographer, Pat Kane had lent me, so I didn’t want to take the piss. Had I have been in a hire […]

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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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Buffalo Joe and an Eagle.

April 16, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

All the images in this article were shot using an iPhone 4S or a Canon G15 compact camera. I’m shooting a project in Canada at the moment, on film… Too cold for film. So, I’ve been shooting a lot on my iPhone and a Canon G15 compact. This weekend I flew down to Hay River on a Buffalo Airways DC3, it’s my second time on this plane, but always an amazing experience. Hay River is a small town about 45 minutes […]

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Thirty Below, Up North.

April 8, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

Just a quick project update. All images in this article were made using either an iPhone 4S (first 4) or a Canon G15 digital compact. All project images are being shot on a Mamiya 7II film camera. There isn’t going to be a lot of blog writing on this trip as I only have my iPhone and Nexus tablet with me, both of which a very difficult to type on! I’ve actually been in Canada for a week now, however, […]

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