All or Nothing.

June 17, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

I don’t know why, and I certainly don’t know what it says about me as a person, but I can not leave film in a camera; when I load a roll, whether it be 36 images on 35mm or 10 on 6x7cm, as soon as I start shooting I have to finish it. I don’t load film into a camera until I see something I want to shoot, so I can be driving along a road, see something that catches […]

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Toast? Or Corn Flakes?

June 15, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

The film v digital argument is as pointless as asking, “Which is better, toast or Corn Flakes?” – they both taste great and they both have their own place at the breakfast table. This week I’ve been eating toast and cornflakes…AND yogurt! This week I having been shooting with a Fuji X-Pro1, a Holga GCFN and a Holga 120 Pan

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Chinese Binge

June 11, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’ve neglected film photography over the last few weeks, not out of choice, it’s just that the type of work I’ve been doing has been better suited to digital. I have missed film though, so last week I went on a two-day film shooting binge – I put a couple of cheap Chinese Holgas and a load of film into my bag and shot everything that caught my eye. All the wide shots here were made on the Holga Pan […]

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The Greens & The Browns

June 3, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

I was going to write an article on the merits of my favourite film, Fuji Pro 400H colour negative, but then I remembered that in all the years that I’ve been reading photography magazines and browsing the internet I’ve never, not once, read a review on any brand of film, it’s pointless – you either like how it looks, or you don’t. I like Pro 400H because of the creamy brown and green tones and because Fuji are less likely […]

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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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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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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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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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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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