Fish & Chips

February 7, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

Photographer, musician, sculptor, writer, architect… if you create anything, you will have your champions and you will have your detractors – the people who applaud when you succeed, and the people who applaud when you fail. Whatever it is you conceive and produce, someone will always cast negativity all over it. I’m not talking about constructive criticism here, or even indifference – I’m referring to the people who, no matter how technically and aesthetically perfect you think your concept and […]

Categories: fashion, Photography • Tags: 400, film, I shoot film, kodak portra 800, model, out of date, pentax 67

Show and tell.

August 30, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’m always surprised, but certainly not disappointed, how willing people are to be photographed. I’m a bit of a hypocrite really; I hate having my photograph taken, so I think I subconsciously expect everyone else to hate it too. But they don’t. The projects I’m shooting at the moment on scars and tattoos often involve subjects who are complete strangers, a lot of them women, but these people invite me into their homes, make me cups of tea and share […]

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Film, it’s overrated…

January 14, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

The day Kodak stop making Tri-X will be a very sad day indeed, there’s no other film like it. Fuji Neopan 1600 came close, and I did use it quite a bit, but it was discontinued a couple of years back and not replaced with anything even slightly similar. The thing I love about Tri-X is it’s ‘push-ability’, its box speed is 400iso, but I regularly shoot it at 800, 1600 and have gone as high as 3200 and still […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 1600, 3200, 400, 6x7, 800, 80mm, black and white, camera, canada, Epson v700, film, film camera, film photography, fine art, fuji film, I shoot film, isle of man, Kodak tri-x, mamiya 7II, negative, overrated, Peak imaging, personal project, phil kneen, portrait, push process, yellowknife