Contrary to fond belief, shaking a Polaroid picture, or any variety of instant film, does not make it develop any quicker… All the images here were made using an Instax Wide 300 and a Mini 90.
Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: fuji instax mini, fuji instax wide, instant film, polaroid
Anyone who follows my blog regularly will know that I’m a huge fan of the acute gratification derived from instant film, whatever its form. I like Impossible Project’s reincarnation of Polaroid, but it’s expensive for what it is: troublesome and unpredictable. I do like the slight element of surprise inherent in any type of analogue film, but the least I expect is a vaguely well exposed image from most lighting conditions – and this isn’t always the case when shooting […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: analogue, fuji instax wide, I shoot film, instant film, instax, isle of man, model, polaroid, shoot film not megapixels, wide 300, woman
‘The Jungle, Calais, Christmas Day – These two men are Bedouin Arabs from Kuwait – they described themselves as ‘no paper’. This basically means that in the country of their birth they are born with no documentation whatsoever, which means they have no right to healthcare, education or welfare of any kind. The guy on the right earned a living in Kuwait by selling fruit ‘illegally’, he spent most of his days being moved-on by the police. The other man […]
Categories: Photography, photojournalism • Tags: calais, france, fuji instax wide, iphone 6, migrant
Although my adoration for instant film comes in waves, my love for it will never die. At the moment I’m surfing a tsunami of infatuation for Fuji Instax, the only truly instant film still available. Obviously, I’m aware of the existence of other ‘instant’ emulsions – but peel apart is hardly accessible to the masses, and the glacial rate at which Impossible Project’s Polaroid replacement develops can hardly place any of its films in the ‘instant’ category. I’ve been using […]
Categories: fashion, Photography • Tags: fuji instax, fuji instax wide, girls, instant film, instant gratification, lucky13, polaroid, The Caff
I sent a batch of films off to be developed in Germany about three weeks ago – they were supposed to be developed and scanned, the negatives hermetically stored and the high-resolution files emailed back to me, all within 10 working days. This has not been the case. This isn’t the kind of tardy, lacklustre performance I’d expect from our super-efficient Euro-neighbours, but then I realised that half the population of Germany are here on the Isle of Man, watching […]
Categories: Music, Photography • Tags: art, BAAD ACID, bands, camera, colour, Epson v700, film, film camera, film photography, fine art, fuji film, fuji instax, fuji instax 200, fuji instax wide, I shoot film, instant, instant film, instant gratification, isle of man, Jeff Jepson, montage, personal project, phil kneen, polaroid, The Jeff Jepson Band, VSCO, VSCO FILM
Anyone who knows me will know that I like cameras; but not in an obsessive, collecting way, I just don’t like to get stagnant by using the same equipment all the time. Having said that, for commercial work I am pretty much set in my ways, I know what I like and know I like the Nikon D800E and 35mm 1.4G combo’. For personal work, it’s different – I’ve got a couple of compact 35mm film cameras on the go […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: art, black and white, camera, colour, Epson v700, film camera, film photography, fine art, fuji film, fuji instax 200, fuji instax wide, I shoot film, Impossible Project, ins, instant, instant film, instant gratification, isle of man, Peak imaging, personal project, phil kneen, polaroid, polaroid 600, Polaroid 600AF, portrait
I first shot Beckii Cruel about three months ago, it was a Sunday morning, which I recall very clearly because I’d been at a party until 4am and slept in the back of my van, I was woken by my PA, Ciara, at about 9.30am, the shoot was at 10am. I drove the 2 miles from where I’d crashed-out to pick Ciara up, she administered orange juice and paracetamol and declared me unfit to drive, so she did. When we […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: beckii cruel, camera, Epson v700, film, film camera, film photography, fine art, fuji instax wide, horses, Impossible Project, instant film, isle of man, nikkor 35mm 1.4, nikon D800E, personal project, phil kneen, polaroid, polaroid 600, portrait, VSCO, VSCO FILM
First of all, I’ve had a few comments about the new format and layout of this blog, it seems that people miss the old Gridspace theme because “It looked less like a blog and more like a website”…but that’s what this is – a blog, a dumping-ground for my photographic meanderings and thoughts. I do have a dedicated portfolio website in the pipeline, so if you just want to look at photographs without my ramblings, it’ll be up and running […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: art, colour, digital, Epson v700, film, film photography, fine art, fuji film, fuji instax 200, fuji instax wide, I shoot film, instant gratification, isle of man, Peak imaging, portrait
For the next few weeks I’m concentrating on shooting images for an exhibition on the Isle of Man at the end of March, in true Phil Kneen fashion I’m leaving everything until the last-minute! Without the help of a few good friends it wouldn’t be happening. Yesterday I had an interesting shoot with the very beautiful, Lorna Cubbon. Lorna reminds me of a cross between a young Kate Moss and Christina Ricci, she’s also a lot taller than I’d imagined! […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: 35mm 1.4, art, black and white, camera, colour, crying, film camera, film photography, fine art, fuji film, fuji instax, fuji instax 200, fuji instax wide, fuji X-pro1, I shoot film, instant film, instant gratification, isle of man, Kimberley Berridge Make-up, Lorna Cubbon, make-up, model, MUA, negative, personal project, phil kneen, portrait, sigma dp1 merrill, VSCO, VSCO FILM
I live on an island, the Isle of Man, perched in the middle of the Irish Sea. If there’s something we have a lot of here, it’s water; it falls from the sky, regularly, and we’re surrounded by it, I’m never more than a 20 minute drive away from the sea. I’ve always loved water, I learned to swim when I was 18 months old and since than I’ve spent most of my life in it, underneath it and on […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: 6x7, black and white, camera, colour, Epson v700, film, film camera, film photography, fine art, fuji film, fuji instax 200, fuji instax wide, fuji pro 400H, I shoot film, instant film, inventive, irish sea, isle of man, kodak, kodak portra 400, model, naked, negative, nude, Peak imaging, personal project, phil kneen, portra 160, portrait
