AMSTERDA…

May 16, 2019 by Phil Kneen Photography

Every Easyjet short haul from John Lennon to Schipol is invariably the same – loud and unruly. On our flight, the stewardess stopped the safety demonstration halfway through because everyone was talking and announced that the cabin crew would not continue until there was complete silence…so, a bit like being on a school trip, except not obeying orders on this outing gets you added to the International ‘No Fly’ list. There’s always a collective excitement on the flight to Holland […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: amsterdam, fuji xf10, holland, street photography

Choose (Van) Life

April 24, 2019 by Phil Kneen Photography

“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.” – Ellen Goodman 

Categories: Photography, photojournalism • Tags: fuji xf10, fujifilm, vanlife

21 Days

April 17, 2019 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’ve been using the Fuji XF10 for three weeks now, which I think is long enough to share what I like and dislike about this camera, so far. I’m not going to do what everyone else does and compare it to the street shooters go-to workhorse, the Ricoh GR2, or the recently released GR3 (despite the three cameras being very similar). So what don’t I like? There’s no viewfinder, which is fine, but I’d like the option of attaching a […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: fuji xf10, fujifilm, Ricoh GRII, Ricoh GRIII, street photography

Fujifilm XF10

April 2, 2019 by Phil Kneen Photography

My first ever experience with a digital camera was back in 2001, I borrowed a friends’ Nikon Coolpix 5000 compact, eighteen years ago it was considered a ‘prosumer’ model. I remember looking at the 5-megapixel images on a computer screen and zooming in until I could see every individual coloured pixel. Most other compact cameras at that time were only packing 2 and 3-megapixel sensors, so I was slightly impressed, although not impressed enough to ditch my 35mm Nikon and […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: classic chrome, fuji, fuji xf10, fujifilm, looks like film, Ricoh GRII, Ricoh GRIII, street photography

Six by Six

January 17, 2019 by Phil Kneen Photography

All the images here were made using a Bronica SQa and 50mm 3.5 lens. Film stock is Ilford HP5 400 pushed to 800. I made the mistake of putting 4 rolls of film through an untested camera, I got the negatives and realised that the rollers on the film back were jammed and dirty, which has scratched the emulsion quite badly. I’ve given the camera a good clean, so hopefully this has sorted the issue.

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: 6x6cm, analogue, bronica, bronica sqa, Ilford hp5 400, medium format, square

Digitalise Me

December 26, 2018 by Phil Kneen Photography

I do use digital cameras, on the odd occasion – these images were all made using iPhone 8+ and Nikon D610. All images were edited using VSCO desktop (which has now been discontinued, apparently)

Categories: Photography, woman • Tags: black and white, colour, fine art, iPhone 8 plus, isle of man, nikon D610, personal project, VSCO, VSCO FILM

Sleep when you can

December 7, 2018 by Phil Kneen Photography

Some more meanderings from my recent trip with the crew on the fishing trawler, Reul na Mara, in the North Atlantic. ‘8th November 2018.  59°56.220N/6°44.813W Course 268°  Sea state – moderate to rough 00.20 – Trawler life is linear; there’s no set time of day when anything in particular happens, it’s merely, ‘Fish, Eat, Sleep, Repeat.’. Clock time is irrelevant, breakfast, lunch and supper are events rather than times of the day. Any sleep pattern I did have, we left […]

Categories: Photography, photojournalism, Uncategorized • Tags: 35mm, analogue, scotland, trawler, trawlermen

Sea state – moderate

December 5, 2018 by Phil Kneen Photography

For two weeks in November, I joined the fishing vessel, Ruel na Mara and her crew, working about 100km northwest off the Outer Hebrides. I don’t wish to romanticise something that these men do for work, all year round, but for me, it was an incredible experience. “A proper adventure”, as a friend dubbed it – two weeks on a 24 metre, wooden-hulled trawler, with two Scotsmen and four Filipinos somewhere in North Atlantic, wearing the same underwear for days […]

Categories: Photography, photojournalism • Tags: 35mm, 6x7, analogue, black and white, colour, film photography, fishermen, fuji pro 400H, I shoot film, Olympus mju II, personal project, portrait, scotland, trawlermen

Aloe Vera

October 12, 2018 by Phil Kneen Photography

All images made using a Polaroid SX-70 Polasonic (autofocus) and Polaroid Originals film.

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: instant film, polaroid, sx-70

Tales of the unexpected

October 6, 2018 by Phil Kneen Photography

I viewed the collapsible lens on the Leica with suspicion; how could something that you just pull out like that, with no positive ‘click stop’, be in any way accurate? So I just put my faith in one-hundred-odd years of precision German engineering and fired two rolls of film through the vintage rangefinder without so much as a glance at a YouTube tutorial. A week later, I got the scans back – pretty much all the images were out of […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: analog, analogue, leica