The Wretched Pearls

June 10, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

“Heralding from the majestic Nordic seas to the murkier British waters, The Wretched Pearls is an explosion of genre-bending artistry consisting of four good-looking women folk and two strapping lads. Leaping and dancing around on stage in extravagant white garments, they command the crowd with their epic sounds and infectious energy.  Through their overwhelming waves of emotion, The Wretched Pearls will take you from the depths of sadness to the highs of euphoria while forcing you into a state of […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: band, band photography, liverpool, music, portrait, The Wretched Pearls, water

Music to my ears.

March 16, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’ve never been particularly musical, I wish I was, but I just don’t get it. Some people don’t understand apertures and ISO’s, I don’t understand cords and notes. Many people have tried to teach me, all have failed. I do like the music scene though, but how can you get involved if you’re tone-deaf? Take photos! I’ve been involved in music photography for a few years now, I’ve photographed the odd famous musician and a lot of not so famous […]

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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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Instant Mannifestation

August 5, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I took a few cameras to Mannifest music festival with me, all analogue, the only digital camera I had with me was my iPhone. I shot quite a few portraits on medium format, mostly black and white. I’ve been shooting quite a bit on Fuji Instax instant film recently, so I packed the camera and 5 packs of film, that’s 100 sheets of film. There was no way I was going to shoot 100 sheets of film, was there? Between […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: film, film camera, film photography, fine art, fuji film, fuji instax, I shoot film, instant film, isle of man, mannifest, music, personal project, phil kneen, portrait

Band Wagon

June 27, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

The images here were all taken between the 29th December 2007 and the 20th December 2008 – one year of band photography on the Isle of Man. In late 2007, after a long break from photography, I decided it was time to jump on the digital band-wagon. I’d never used digital before, not really had much experience with flash and had no idea what I was going to photograph. It was the drag-end of 2007 when I took my camera […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-40L, 430ex, band, canon eos 5d, douglas, flash, isle of man, music, stage, the creek

Beltane Portraits.

May 20, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

In keeping with the natural style of this event, I shot all the portraits on 6×4.5cm film (also because I hate digital at the moment) I used a Mamiya 645 Pro tl. Colour – Kodak Portra 400 and Fuji Pro 400H. Black and white – Kodak Tri-X 400 Helen, my wife, was very clear, very precise with her instructions – “Drive the camper up first thing Friday, get us a good spot, save the Campbell’s a good spot and then […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: 80mm 2.8, Beltane, dog, festival, isle of man, kodak portra 400, Kodak tri-x, mamiya 645 pro tl, May, music, Sulby

Mono

February 23, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’ve been taking photos, on and off, mainly on, for the last 25 years and I still can’t quite get my head around black and white film. I’ll see the work of another photographer and think ‘Right, that’s it, I’m only shooting mono from now-on because their photos look so damned good’, I then load a couple of cameras up with Kodak T-Max or Fuji Neopan and off I go. I don’t think I’ve ever shoot more than a couple […]

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This week…

February 4, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

This week I’ve been photographing musicians, mostly. Last Monday I had the band ‘3 Million‘ in the studio, they didn’t bat an eyelid when I told them I was going to bind them all together with cling-film for half an hour. I’ve seen these chaps play a couple of times, I recommend you do the same. On Wednesday I had a second session with the yet unnamed duo, Adam Jones and Geoff Tinkler. This pair are VERY photogenic! We started […]

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Rain stops play.

January 29, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’m going to be working with two very talented young musicians, Adam Jones and Geoff Tinkler, over the next couple of weeks. I had a brace of location shots planned for our first session, but biblical rain put pay to those plans. I think I actually saw Noahs Arc going past the studio at one point. We ended-up just doing some informal, naturally lit portrait shots. I think these chaps will go far on looks alone…you heard it here first. […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 50mm 1.4, art, black and white, canon eos 5d mark 2, fine art, isle of man, music, musicians, personal project, phil kneen, portrait, silver efex pro, Simon Campbell

He who pays the piper…

January 8, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

Have you ever sat and watched someone selecting songs on a jukebox? I often wonder if the person is choosing the songs that they actually like, or are they choosing the songs that they want everyone else in the bar to think they like? I see it at parties too, there’s always the self-designated iPod DJ who sits in the same place all night, frightened to leave his 16 gigabytes of music unattended in case someone finds, amongst the cool […]

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