1984

October 22, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

I was 13/14 years old in 1984, my interest in photography hadn’t surfaced and wouldn’t do for another couple of years, but it was the year the Minolta Hi-Matic GF was released. Two years later it was still being produced and had probably sold in its hundreds of thousands, but it wouldn’t have caught my eye, I was in that first stage of photography when I honestly believed that the more expensive the camera, the better your photos would be, […]

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The Emperors New Clothes?

May 19, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

My love affair with the Fuji X-Pro1 continues, so much so that I haven’t shot a single roll of film for the last week. I feel bad, but I think that this is the way it’s going to stay – I don’t mean I’m never going to shoot film again, I’m just going back to the way I worked a year ago – shooting both. Canada was a bit of a turning-point for me, shooting that project on film was […]

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