The waiting game…

September 30, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

It’s Sunday night, I’m anxious. Five days ago I posted 116 rolls of medium format film from London Victoria to Sheffield, in the North of England, to be developed. So there’s not a lot I can do, except wait… In the meantime I’m going through the vast amount of instant images I took over the 3 weeks in Canada. I love instant photos, they are so mundane looking, but so aesthetically pleasing, so perfectly suited to road-tripping. I’ve also been […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: film, film camera, film photography, fine art, fuji film, fuji instax 200, fuji instax wide, personal project, phil kneen, portrait, yellowknife

Instant Yellowknife.

September 28, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I took a Fuji instant camera to Canada with me, mainly to use as a photographic ‘sketch book’, but it also came in very handy as an icebreaker – you can’t give someone a photo straight away if you’re shooting on film or digital, not easily, but you can with an instant camera. One of my highlights in Yellowknife was watching the look of utter amazement of a four year old kid as his face slowly appeared on the sheet […]

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Home again, home again…

September 27, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I didn’t go to Canada to shoot landscapes, my project is documentary based, but when in Rome… I took a Canon EOS 5D mkII to The North West Territories of Canada with me. I shot the entire project on film, but I took the Canon, filled with good intentions of getting loads of video footage. That never happened, I was just to busy. I did manage to get a few shots of the Aurora Borealis though, 8 shots to be […]

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And now, the end is near…

September 24, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

All shots in this article were taken using an iPhone 4s and edited using various apps. This article is just a quick update with snapshots. I’ll be publishing more detailed articles, with actual project images, over the next few months. I can’t believe that we arrived in Yellowknife two weeks ago, Banff and The Rockies seem like it was months ago!                  

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Canada, Oh Canada

September 18, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

All photos in this article were taken on my iPhone 4s and were edited using various apps. It’s been an extremely busy week in Yellowknife! The photo above is of Tony Foliot, better known as The Snow King. We met-up with Sarah Marsh from the Canadian Coastguard Auxiliary, who’d invited us a training exercise. I ended-up getting to drive the twin 150 horse powered RIB 10 miles out into Great Slave Lake at 32 knots, very exciting! We’ve also been […]

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The story, thus far…

September 11, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

Just a quick update as I’m doing this on my iPhone! I arrived in Calgary last Thursday with writer, Trevor Gibbs, we decided to hire a car and went to Banff for a couple of days. The Canadian Rockies are incredibly beautiful, it’s a pity I don’t have the patience for landscape photography though! We drove to a place called Radium Springs and I made some portraits of an eccentric Swiss wood carver called Rolf, he was a great guy! […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: canada, film, Fuji Acros 100, fuji instax, fuji pro 400H, holga, mamiya 7II, yellowknife

All the gear…

September 3, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

Quite a few people have asked me what gear I’m taking to Canada for the ‘Life on The ‘Knife’s edge’ project – well here it is. Mamiya 645 Pro TL with 80mm and 55mm Mamiya 7II with 80mm Canon EOS 5D mk2 with 24-105L (mainly for shooting video) I also have a Fuji Instax instant camera and a Holga GCFN. There is 25 rolls of film here plus 100 sheets of instant film. I have another 130 rolls of film […]

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Ricford.

September 2, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I took the first two photographs here of my son, Richard, almost exactly 14 years ago, when he was 3. It was these, and many other images that I took at the time that sparked an interest in portrait photography. The last two are at 14 and a few months ago, just before Ric’s 17th birthday. I’m off to Canada on Wednesday to start a photo-essay with writer, and close friend, Trevor Gibbs. We arrive in Calgary on Thursday and […]

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