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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Nap time and biscuits.

January 7, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

I recall my first day at nursery school clearly, I was 4… My Mum marched me into to the Methodist church hall and introduced me to the old ladies, I say ‘old’, they were probably in their late 20′s, but as my Mum was only in her mid-20′s at the time, anyone older than her was an old person. I played for a bit, unpacked the dressing-up box and made a house with Stickle Bricks, then it was snack time. […]

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compact and bijou

November 12, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

My entire website is actually an attempt to convert every photographer in the world into shooting film. My quest is to send-out subliminal messages every few days via the medium of WordPress…my plan is coming together nicely (rubs hands together, big booming Dr Evil laugh, etc, etc) The most common argument I hear for nor getting down with celluloid is that shooting film is too expensive. It’s not expensive – I shot all of these images using a second-hand Olympus […]

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Beyond Frontierland (Morecambe waits, part 2)

April 27, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

Words by Liz Corlett. Images by Phil Kneen Seaside resorts give you everything up front; there’s no waiting game or charms withheld. This can lend their ‘off duty’ quarters a curiously unfinished quality: leave Morecambe seafront and walk three or four streets deep into the town, and the quietness is singular, as though there’d been an emergency evacuation only moments before. In the East End, time itself has been ushered out of town: a detour through the side streets leads […]

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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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The long and the short of it…

February 27, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’ve had the pleasure of being asked to be Director of Photography by writer and director, Richard Plumley, on his short film URMA (working title). This is a grab portrait of lead actor, Matt Corcoran. The film also stars local lady, Janine Lashmar. My youngest son, Ric, who joined us as a runner, was promoted to sound recordist within five minutes of arriving on set. Filmmaking is a bit of a first for me, I’ve done a small amount of […]

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View from a Mju II

February 25, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I bought a second hand Olympus Mju II film camera a while back, these are a few photos from the first couple of rolls of Kodak Portra 160/400. I’m really inspired at the moment by the work of Ondra Loup, Bryan Ferry and Andi Otten (Otty the light stealer…), three photographers who use whatever cameras they have with them at the time to create beautiful images of everyday objects and situations.

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