Needs must…

April 10, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’ve been shooting more film than usual this week, mostly film actually, due to the fact that someone stole my entire Nikon digital outfit, £8000 worth of uninsured kit (uninsured because of the circumstances in which it was stolen), over the Easter weekend. I am, needless to say, completely devastated, but worse things have happened in the world. All the images here were made using a Canon AE1, 50mm 1.8 lens and either Fuji Pro 400H or 1o year out […]

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1986

December 17, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

Summer 1986, I was 16, my Dad returned from Saudi Arabia where he’d been teaching. I hadn’t asked him for anything, but along with the counterfeit Nike and Adidas t-shirts and bootlegged cassettes, he brought me a camera. This camera. An Olympus OM10. The photo above was the first picture I ever took, thus proving that nobody is born with the natural ability to use a camera. I had NO idea whatsoever how to use it, all I knew is […]

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Coming to America.

July 10, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

If you could go back in time, just for a few days, and photograph something, when and where would it be? Mine would be a pretty cheap ride in the time machine, because I’d like a long weekend in 1970’s West Coast United States of America. I could have done it the first time round, technically, being born in 1969, but I don’t think I had the skills when I was five… I love the whole 70’s California look, the […]

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Standard Issue.

July 7, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

The humble, and often under-utilised, standard lens – the 50mm (or 35mm, 80mm or 150mm, depending on what format you’re shooting…). Every camera used to come with one, normally a 50mm 1.8, it was the first thing eager snappers wanted to replace, for some reason? A lot of people are very surprised to learn that 90% of my images are made using the standard lens. I love them. I used to shoot a lot of stuff on a 17-40mm, but […]

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