Lost and Found

September 16, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

I found a bundle of photographs yesterday, Fuji Instax Mini photographs, using a camera I’d bought in Tokyo on my last day of a recent visit to Japan with my fifteen-year-old daughter, Jess. We had a load of cash left at the end of the trip, so we went shopping at a huge camera store in the Shibuya district. I love finding photos I’d forgotten about, and I miss Tokyo, a lot. All the images here were made within about […]

Categories: film photography, Photography, travel • Tags: analogue, film, fuji instax mini, instant film, japan, Narita Airport, polaroid, tokyo

Let there be light

September 3, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

I was sitting outside the building that I live in a couple of nights ago, chatting with one of my neighbours from the flat below me, Terry, who was four cans into a six-pack of strong continental lager. Just before I stood up to leave, Terry grabbed my wrist and said, “It’s getting colder, and have you noticed the days are getting shorter?” – My neighbour made the statement in such a way that it made me think that the […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: 35mm, analogue, disposable camera, film, flash, Olympus mju II

Number 4

August 28, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

All images made using an Olympus MjuII compact film camera. The film used is Fuji Superia 400 and Natura 1600. Phil Kneen on – Instagram

Categories: film photography, Photography, photojournalism • Tags: 35mm, analogue, film, fuji superia 400, Olympus mju II

Indisposable

August 24, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

There was a time when no wedding reception was complete without a disposable camera on each table for guests to produce 27 poorly exposed and badly composed photographs that nobody ever got to see. These days, smart phones have replaced the disposable and wedding guests now take hundreds of poorly exposed and badly composed photographs that nobody wants to see. I love disposable cameras, though, now and then I’ll buy a few from Amazon and keep one in my camera […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: 35mm, 800iso, disposable camera, film, indisposable, kodak disposable

The things I saw (Liverpool) #3

August 22, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

More visual meanderings from a recent trip to Liverpool with my good chum and fellow analogue photographer, Ed Riley. I gave another good friend a 35mm film camera the other day to have a play with – Hannah, a very keen photographer, has only ever made images using her iPhone, but has been interested in using film for a while now. There were a lot of questions asked about the technical side of analogue photography, but I told Hannah that […]

Categories: film photography, Photography, photojournalism • Tags: 35mm, film, fuji superia 400, I shoot film, liverpool, merseyside, olympus mju2

The things I saw (Liverpool) #1

August 15, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

I like to think I have a pretty good built-in compass, an organic GPS that usually get’s me to where I’m supposed to be without too much hassle or head scratching. Unfortunately, this Magellan like homing skill goes out of the window with every visit to Liverpool – and I’ve spent a lot of time in the city. A couple of years ago, I left a party in Toxteth; it was 6 am, I’d lost my phone, and I was […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: analogue, film, liverpool, Olympus mju II

The things I saw (Norway)

May 4, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

The things I saw series – my personal snapshots of travels away from home normally come weeks, often months apart. This latest one from Norway comes almost back-to-back with Japan simply because I returned from Japan, stayed home for a day, then went to Norway (more accurately, England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway…). This latest trip was a 6000 road trip to shoot digital landscapes to sell as stock images, but as usual, I took my Olympus […]

Categories: film photography, Photography, travel • Tags: 35mm, film, I shoot film, norway, Olympus mju II, road trip

The things I saw (Tokyo) #5

April 26, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

An interesting fact about Japan – you can’t disable your cell phone camera shutter sound – even when you have the device on silent, it makes an audible ‘shutter sound’. Although it isn’t required by law, it was taken up voluntarily by all Japanese cellphone vendors. It is also rumoured that within the next year camera manufactures will introduce the same feature and disable silent modes with firmware updates and in new models. Even so, there are still plenty of […]

Categories: film photography, photojournalism, travel • Tags: 35mm, film, fuji superia 400, iphone, japan, Olympus mju II, tokyo, voyeurism

The things I saw (Tokyo) #3

April 24, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

More visual meanderings and photographic sketches from a recent trip to Japan… Eating in Tokyo can be problematic, especially if you stray merrily off the tourist route, like we did… a lot of restaurants have a digital ordering and pre-pay system – you go in, select your food, you get a ticket and go and sit down – then your food arrives, but because the entire menu was only in Japanese, you don’t actually know what you ordered, but the […]

Categories: photojournalism, travel • Tags: 35mm film, film, fuji superia 400, japan, Olympus mju II, tokyo

The things I saw (Tokyo) #2

April 23, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

More visual meanderings and photographic sketches from a recent trip to Japan… Me and Jess both tried to sleep on our first night in Tokyo, but the 9 hour time difference was telling our brains it was the middle of the day, not 4am… so we got up, got dressed, left our hotel at 5am and headed to Kawasaki train station. By 6am the station was already quite busy, but for our first 20 minute commute into Tokyo we managed […]

Categories: film photography, Photography, photojournalism • Tags: film, fuji superia 400, japan, Olympus mju II, tokyo, travel