MARY IS MISSING

March 20, 2021 by Phil Kneen Photography

After weeks of self-congratulating and mass back-slapping at the fact we’d been COVID free for so long, the Isle of Man is now riddled, worse in reality than it was a year ago. So, we’re now in lockdown again until April 6th, at the earliest. Lockdown number 1, 12-months ago, was very productive for me: I made a book. Lockdown 2, or the first ‘circuit breaker’, not so fruitful; I just sat on the sofa, drinking beer for a few […]

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Boots

February 1, 2021 by Phil Kneen Photography

I haven’t been off the Isle of Man for nearly a year. Just writing that fills me with a sense of panic. I miss the long, monotonous waits at airports and the gruelling, 12-hour drive to the far north of Scotland to join fishing boats. I crave for the crappy, low-budget motels and bed & breakfasts and sleeping, contorted, across two armchairs in the bar of a cross-channel ferry. I don’t find any of it unpleasant. I enjoy eating over-priced […]

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78.74 Inches

January 16, 2021 by Phil Kneen Photography

The year twenty-twenty-one – it has quite the futuristic ring to it. When I was a kid, growing up in the 70’s and 80’s of the last century, the year 2000 was ‘The Future’. 2021 was unimaginable to me. Now, I do imagine going back in time to my 10-year-old self; how would I attempt to describe what the world has become, 40-years on? Where would I start? “Okay, Phillip – electric cars which drive themselves, cameras that don’t need […]

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Eldorado

November 19, 2020 by Phil Kneen Photography

 

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13×33-miles

October 11, 2020 by Phil Kneen Photography

“Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.” Richard Lovelace, To Althea, from Prison

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PANASONIC

August 9, 2020 by Phil Kneen Photography

Somebody told me that they don’t understand my photography. I don’t understand what they don’t understand? Because there is nothing to understand. Some people share photos of their meals – if I ever have a meal in front of me that’s THAT interesting, I’ll photograph that too. 

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The Things I Saw #71 (KEEP CLEAR)

April 5, 2020 by Phil Kneen Photography

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The Things I Saw #70

April 2, 2020 by Phil Kneen Photography

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On The Buses

November 12, 2019 by Phil Kneen Photography

All images made from the back seat of various buses and coaches using a Ricoh GRII camera. Coverted to black and white using Silver Efex Pro2

Categories: Photography • Tags: black and white, black and white photography, fine art, personal project, Ricoh GRII, Ricoh GRIII, silver efex pro

Roseena

October 1, 2019 by Phil Kneen Photography

I recently had the pleasure of photographing a fantastic model from the west coast of Ireland, Roseena McNair, who was visiting the Isle of Man for a couple of days. Roseena has a beautiful natural look and wore no makeup at all. I’ve done no skin retouching, whatsoever. I see the work of photographers whose models have the appearance of having been dipped in wax; they have a kind of Madame Tussaud’s look to them. When confronted, they’ll insist that […]

Categories: model, Photography • Tags: fashion, model