Anxiety

September 11, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

I drive past these scenes on the Isle of Man at least once a week, some of them are on my daily driving route. I can’t explain why the locations and the images I produced make me feel uneasy, but they do. One way roads, boarded up buildings, seemingly abandoned caravans and camper vans with hints of habitation all fill me with a strange anxiety and sense of ambiguity… All images were made using a Fuji GA645 medium format camera and […]

Categories: film photography, Photography, photojournalism • Tags: 645, anxiety, expired film, Fuji GA645, isle of man, kodak portra 400

Medium Mono

June 19, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

I don’t shoot a lot of black and white film these days; I used to when I started out in photography, but that’s because it was cheaper. I believe to get the full effect of mono, you have to be willing to go the whole hog and develop and print your own work, and I simply don’t have the patience. I do, however, see the work of other photographers and it lures me back into shooting a few rolls of […]

Categories: film photography • Tags: black and white, delta 3200, Ilford HP5, mono, pentax 67

Courtney

June 13, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

All images were made using various film cameras – Nikon F100/50mm 1.4G, Fuji GA645 and Pentax 67/105mm 2.4. Film stock is Portra 400 at box speed in the medium formats, and a roll of 15 year expired Kodak Kodacolor Gold 200 in the Nikon.

Categories: film photography, Photography, woman • Tags: Fuji GA645, I shoot film, natural light, nikon 50mm 1.4G, nikon f100, pentax 67, woman

Do not dismantle

June 8, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

When I’ve finished using a disposable camera, despite the explicit warning on the outer casing of the flash version of these cameras that doing this can result in serious injury or even death by electrocution, I always force the unit open to get the film canister out. I’m pleased to inform that I’m still alive. I just don’t see the financial sense of sending the entire camera through the post to be developed… nevertheless, when I’m found dead, clutching a […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: disposable camera, kodak, kodak disposable

645

May 21, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

All images made using my Fuji GA645 (which I’m still loving) and Kodak Ektar 100 film. Developed and scanned by Canadian Film Lab. 

Categories: film photography • Tags: canadian film lab, Fuji GA645, isle of man, kodak ektar 100

Jade and Sam

May 18, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

I don’t shoot weddings very often, but when I do, I shoot them on film. All images made using Nikon F100 and F4/50mm 1.4G and 28mm 1.8G and Kodak Portra 400 rated at 200. Developing and scanning by the very understanding and most excellent, CANADIAN FILM LAB

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: bride, kodak portra 400, nikon 28mm 1.8G, nikon 50mm 1.4G, nikon f100, nikon f4, wedding

Girls On Film

May 9, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

All images of Megan and Laura were made using various cameras and either Kodak Portra 400 or Fuji Superia 400 film. The fourth image down was shot on 120 medium format film, I then accidentally left the roll in direct window light for a couple of days, which is why the frame numbers have imprinted through the backing paper and onto the negative.

Categories: film photography, Photography, woman • Tags: 35mm, Fuji GA645, fuji superia 400, I shoot film, kodak portra 400, lovers, medium format, nikon f100, nikon f4, shower

Emotionally Unavailable.

May 1, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

I get quite a lot of people say to me that we should meet up for a shoot next time in wherever it is they live or that they’ll book me for a shoot if they’re ever on the Isle of Man. But it seldom happens, so I was surprised and delighted when Laura contacted me to say that she was visiting the Island with her partner, Megan, and they wanted to do a shoot with me. Laura and Megan, […]

Categories: film photography, woman • Tags: 35mm, canadian film lab, fuji superia 400, lesbian, LGBT, nikon 28mm 1.8G

Sideways

April 27, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

All images made using a Fuji GA645 6×4.5cm camera and Kodak Ektar film. Developed and scanned at Canadian Film Lab

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: canadian film lab, Fuji GA645, isle of man, kodak ektar 100

An early morning with Matt Creer

April 20, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

For the second time in about three years, I’ve been working with Matt Creer, shooting the artwork for his latest album. I liked the photographs we made in back then, which I shot on digital. However, we are both in agreement that these recent images, shot on film, unquestionably have a depth and an almost fourth dimension that the 2014 shots lacked. Photo sessions with Matt are always enjoyable, despite the odd 5am start; in a city, this wouldn’t represent […]

Categories: film photography, Music, Photography • Tags: 35mm, 6x7, canadian film lab, film photography, fuji superia 400, kodak portra 400, Matt Creer, portrait