Anxiety

September 11, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

I drive past these scenes on the Isle of Man at least once a week, some of them are on my daily driving route. I can’t explain why the locations and the images I produced make me feel uneasy, but they do. One way roads, boarded up buildings, seemingly abandoned caravans and camper vans with hints of habitation all fill me with a strange anxiety and sense of ambiguity… All images were made using a Fuji GA645 medium format camera and […]

Categories: film photography, Photography, photojournalism • Tags: 645, anxiety, expired film, Fuji GA645, isle of man, kodak portra 400

‘bladdered

January 27, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’ve just received the first batch of scans back from my new Hasselblad 501cm; the results were ‘eclectic’, for two reasons – firstly, I shot the first roll on Christmas Day after drinking a bottle of Prosecco to myself. I think that’s as far as I need to explain that. The other reason is that I still haven’t got my head around the square composition of the Hasselblad again, after years of shooting 35mm and various none-square medium formats. Something […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: 501cm, 6x6cm, expired film, fuji reala, hasselblad, kodak portra 800, medium format

Best Before…

February 8, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

Last year I was staying in a friend’s house – she was out all day and I got hungry, but couldn’t be bothered going to the shops. The only thing I could find that didn’t involve preparation was a tin of Heinz vegetable soup, and so into a pan it went. As the soup slowly heated, the pungent miasma that filled the kitchen should have given the game away, but it wasn’t until I tested the contents for optimum serving […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: 35mm, 50mm 1.4, expired film, film, film is not dead, I shoot film, nikon f100, out of date, UK Film Lab