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

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

Six Four Five

March 28, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

6×4.5cm – it’s the ‘middle child syndrome’ of the film world; stuck between 35mm and 6x7cm, it tends to get overlooked and somewhat neglected. I require the inherent image quality of medium format, but I also like the convenience and speed of 35mm, especially 35mm compacts, such as the Olympus MjuII. Basically, I’m lazy; so what I’ve always wanted/needed is a medium format point ‘n’ shoot camera – the GA645 is that camera. The GA645 was released in 1997, as […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: 35mm, 35mm film, 645cm, analogue, film, Fuji GA645, I shoot film, medium format, Olympus mju II

A little bit X-TRA

February 23, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

For the last couple of weeks I’ve been having a bit of a photography documentary feast; have a search around Amazon Prime and Netflix, and you’ll find loads. Last night I watched, ‘Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film’; the movie documents the…well, the clue’s in the title. I don’t want to give away the plot, but it’s a bit like any movie about the Titanic – it always hits an iceberg and sinks at the end. Polaroid sails […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: 35mm, colour, film, film camera, film photography, fuji film, fuji superia 400, personal project, portrait

5840 Days

January 2, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

I can’t believe our daughter is Sixteen! Jess can now join the armed forces, invest in a cash ISA, move out of the family home (but if under 17, social services may apply for a care order), give consent to medical, dental and surgical treatment, be detained in police custody and get married. Jess, fortunately, has inherited most of her good points off her Mum, Helen, so she’s already pretty well sorted for life, although she did inherit my poor […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: 35mm, analogue, film, fuji, fuji instax mini, isle of man, japan, kodak, Olympus mju II, pentax 67, portrait

Different Strokes

December 9, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

I had the pleasure of giving a talk to members of the Isle of Man Photographic Society last week, it’s the first time I’ve done something like this to other photographers, so I was slightly apprehensive. They were a friendly audience, but I’m not sure that some of them, notably the older members, ‘got’ my somewhat alternative brand of photography. Despite arriving totally unprepared, I managed to talk for over two hours; I deliberately kept away from the technical aspects […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: 35mm, analogue, film, fuji GW690III, holga gcfn, I shoot film, Olympus mju II

16 Years.

October 27, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

Almost a year to the day after I first visited and photographed inside The Jungle, France has all but obliterated its biggest and most troublesome migrant camp. What expanded over the space of sixteen years was destroyed in less than two days. I first visited the migrant camp in Calais last October, and before I go any further, I think it’s important to note that The Jungle is, or was, a migrant camp, not a refugee camp. Nobody will ever […]

Categories: film photography, photojournalism • Tags: 35mm, calais, film photography, france, grande-synthe, migrants, the jungle

Hollie and Ollie

October 16, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

“I don’t do weddings.” – that’s what I tell most people, most of the time. I used to shoot a lot of weddings, all digitally, but I found the whole process extremely stressful, so now I limit my nuptial documentation to close friends and the occasional, powerfully persuasive, client. A couple of months ago I had the pleasure of photographing the wedding of my good friends, Ollie and Holly French; it was a great weekend…from what I can remember, but […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: 35mm, film, nikon f100, Olympus mju II, wedding

Bethany

October 15, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

Makeup by the very excellent Kimberley Berridge Nikon F100/50mm 1.4G , Fuji GW690II, Kodak disposable Various film – Kodak Portra 800, Fuji Superia 400 and 12 year expired Jessops 400

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: 35mm, analogue, film, nikon f100