A little bit X-TRA

February 23, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

For the last couple of weeks I’ve been having a bit of a photography documentary feast; have a search around Amazon Prime and Netflix, and you’ll find loads. Last night I watched, ‘Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film’; the movie documents the…well, the clue’s in the title. I don’t want to give away the plot, but it’s a bit like any movie about the Titanic – it always hits an iceberg and sinks at the end. Polaroid sails […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: 35mm, colour, film, film camera, film photography, fuji film, fuji superia 400, personal project, portrait

Just make it up.

January 25, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

My two primary fields as a photographer are portraiture and photojournalism; a lot of my images are straight, natural, environmental portraits, such as those I shot in the migrant camps of northern France and for my project last year in Spain. Other times I get an idea into my head as to how I’d like someone to look or a situation I’d like a person to inhabit. However, that person or place may not be available, or even exist. For […]

Categories: film photography, photojournalism • Tags: film camera, film photography, fine art, fuji film, fuji superia 400, makeup, negative, nikkor 35mm 1.4, Olympus mju II, personal project, portrait

The things I saw (Tokyo) #4

April 25, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it” All the images here were made using an Olympus MjuII 35mm compact and various film (Fuji Superia 400/800 and Kodak Gold 400, mainly). Processed and scanned at UK Film Lab.

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

Only Human

October 31, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

Here’s a few portraits I shot while I was last in France and Spain. All made using either an Olympus MjuII 35mm compact or a Fuji GW690III 6x9cm. Film is Kodak Portra 160/400/800. Developed and scanned at UK Film Lab.  This will probably the last post for a while as I’m off to Calais tomorrow to make portraits and document on the various migrant camps in the French coastal town. The last time I was there I had great difficulty […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: 35mm, analogue, c41, film, fuji film, fuji GW690III, fuji pro 400H, I shoot film, kodak, Olympus mju II, pentax 67, portrait

The things I saw #9

October 30, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

This is the last of my ‘The things I saw’ series, my visual meanderings and notebook of the banal from a month in The Netherlands, France, Spain and Andorra. Some people have enjoyed these shots, others have not, finding them… well, banal. You can’t please everyone – which is why I don’t try to. As the Canadians say, “It is what it is”. Over the next couple of days I’m going to be re-packing my camper van in readiness for […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: colour, film, film photography, fuji film, kodak portra 400, Olympus mju II, personal project, portrait

The things I saw #2

October 25, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

I thought I’d add an entry from my travel log with this, the second ‘The things I saw’ article. All the images here were made using an Olympus MjuII and various 35mm film, including Kodak Portra, Agfa Vista, Fuji Superia and expired Kodak Tri-X 400. This images are my analogue notebook, visual sketches of my travels. ‘Sunday 18th October, Calais, France – I never, for one moment, realised that the migrant situation was so dire. Arriving in Calais is like […]

Categories: film photography, Photography, photojournalism, travel • Tags: 35mm, 35mm film, analogue, art, colour, compact, film camera, film photography, fine art, france, fuji film, fuji pro 400H, I shoot film, inventive, kodak portra 400, legs, Olympus mju II, personal project, phil kneen, portra 160, spain

Baggage Allowance

August 10, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

When I was a kid my parents never used to tell me I was going on holiday… I’d just become over-excited and unbearable for the days or weeks before departure. I remember, on several occasions, getting home from infant school and being asked if I’d had a wee and a poo – then being bundled into the back of the family VW Beetle, falling asleep almost immediately and waking-up, hours later, in a campsite in Scotland or North Wales, or […]

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Oh… Canada

August 3, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

As is fairly normal in my life, plans have changed – this September I was supposed to be going to France to shoot a project on the Atlantic coast, documenting migrant surfers for three months… however, I’ve changed my mind, I’m now going to Canada to finish a long-term project I’ve been working on for about four years now. This decision mainly comes down to money – last time I was in Canada I got $1.2 for my £1 Sterling, […]

Categories: film photography, Photography, photojournalism • Tags: 6x4.5cm, black and white, camera, canada, colour, Epson v700, film, film camera, film photography, fine art, fuji film, fuji GW690III, fuji instax 200, fuji pro 400H, I shoot film, isle of man, kodak, kodak portra 400, negative, personal project, phil kneen, portra 160, portrait, road trip, yellowknife

Spanish Retro

July 16, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

These images are an homage to my love of family run, independent, budget hotels, B&Bs, motels and guest houses. I’ve been staying in such establishments for years, for both business and pleasure. Years ago, I had a few commissions with The Times Newspaper – they’d give me £100 a day (which was a lot for a daily hotel allowance – even 15 years ago), I’d always find somewhere really cheap, never more than £30 a night, and spend the rest […]

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Look into my eyes…

July 10, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

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