The Latent Image

February 27, 2018 by Phil Kneen Photography

Ask any diehard black and white photographer what he, or she, like most about their craft, and they’ll usually tell you about the excitement of developing and printing their work in an old-fashioned darkroom, the smell of the chemicals and the thrill of seeing the image materialise from a blank piece of paper. Well, I’m not one of those people – I hate the smell of the chemicals, that vinegary stench makes me gag, and I’m far too impatient to […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: mono, pentax 67, the latent image

Needs must…

April 10, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’ve been shooting more film than usual this week, mostly film actually, due to the fact that someone stole my entire Nikon digital outfit, £8000 worth of uninsured kit (uninsured because of the circumstances in which it was stolen), over the Easter weekend. I am, needless to say, completely devastated, but worse things have happened in the world. All the images here were made using a Canon AE1, 50mm 1.8 lens and either Fuji Pro 400H or 1o year out […]

Categories: Photography, photojournalism • Tags: 35mm, 50mm, 50mm 1.4, 50mm 1.8, fuji pro 400H, HP5, ilford, mono, stolen

This week…

October 8, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

I published the above image on my Facebook page a few weeks ago, I really love it, which is why I published it, but it received a few negative comments and was then removed for containing ‘sexually explicit content’, which I found a bit odd. Anyway, it put me off publishing the image again, but my good friend and PA, Ciara, has been nagging me to show it. So here it is, I still love it. This week I received […]

Categories: Music, Photography • Tags: album, art, black and white, blues, camera, colour, film camera, film photography, I shoot film, kodak, mono, music, nikkor 35mm 1.4, nikon D800E, nude, personal project, phil kneen, portrait, promo, Simon Campbell, the knife, valencia, vinyl

Good Times

August 5, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

‘I’ve been stood-up by a ginger man model. Are there any other pre-twenty-five year old ginger men in Peel? (willing to go in the sea fully clothed)….a ginger girl would also work’ Professional photographers aren’t entitled to bad days, we either have good days, or REALLY good days. Whether it’s paid shoot, or a personal project, professional photographers have to come-up with the goods after every shoot. For me, today was a really, REALLY good day. Today I’d organised to […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: art, black and white, camera, colour, digital, Epson v700, film, film camera, film photography, fine art, I shoot film, inventive, irish sea, isle of man, kodak, kodak portra 400, mono, negative, nikkor 35mm 1.4, nikon D800E, Peak imaging, personal project, phil kneen, Portra, portra 160, portrait, Ricoh GR1, tattoo artist, tattooist, VSCO, VSCO FILM

Mini Mono

February 11, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’ve been using the Sigma DP1 Merrill for a few weeks now, and after my initial thoughts of, ‘Oh my God, what have I done?!’, I can now confirm that this is a camera I now could not live without. I turned-up to shoot a commercial job a while back, on arrival I took the DP1 out and started to set-up, the client actually said, “What the f**k is that?!…you did bring a proper camera as well, didn’t you?”, I […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: art, black and white, film photography, mono, negative, personal project, phil kneen, sigma dp1 merrill, VSCO, VSCO FILM

Instant Gratification?

January 31, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

For the last couple of weeks I’ve been experimenting with Impossible Project instant film, I’ve shot a few boxes of the new colour version, and I have to say it was love at first sight. The whole look, the weird hues and colour casts are everything I’d expected. I’ve ordered a few more boxes of the colour version – we’re going steady. Now then, the black and white type…I’m not so sure, I certainly didn’t rush out and buy an […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 600, art, black and white, Epson v700, film photography, fine art, Impossible Project, instant film, instant gratification, mono, personal project, phil kneen, polaroid, Polaroid 600AF, portrait

Scar Tissue

May 9, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

This week I’ve finally started a project that I’ve been meaning to do for years, it’s an issue that’s always fascinated me – scars. I posted an update on my Facebook page asking for people with scars and a story to go with them. I was expecting to get maybe 15 or 20 people – at the time of writing this I’ve got 159 volunteers! Some of the scars are accidental, some are medical. One lady has asked me to photograph […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: amsterdam, canon G15, fuji X-pro1, mono, scars, street photography, workshop

“My time,my creation”

May 31, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I found these two shots on the end of a roll of film that I was scanning, I’d completely forgotten about them. When I first met Scott, a couple of years ago, he asked me what I liked doing, I told him I liked taking photos. Scott replied, “That’s good, you’re a visionary…it’s good to be a visionary”. I only spent a relatively short amount of time around Scott, but in that time I did learn a lot from him […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 50mm 1.4, dog, film, I shoot film, isle of man, kodak tmax 400, life, mono, nikon fm2, scott clark, visionary

What people want.

May 8, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I took this shot of my good friend, Noah, three years ago. In 35 months, over 5 different sites including Flickr and Getty Images, it’s had nearly 1.2 million views, received 598 comments (good and bad) and 585 likes on Flickr. It also sells like hot cakes. One thing is obvious – it’s not the kind of image I take now, but it’s what people want! *** UPDATE *** A lot of people have asked what Noah looks like without […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 50mm 1.4, canon eos 5d, face, isle of man, mk2, mono, pain, phil kneen, photo, rubber band face, silver efex pro

This week…

February 4, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

This week I’ve been photographing musicians, mostly. Last Monday I had the band ‘3 Million‘ in the studio, they didn’t bat an eyelid when I told them I was going to bind them all together with cling-film for half an hour. I’ve seen these chaps play a couple of times, I recommend you do the same. On Wednesday I had a second session with the yet unnamed duo, Adam Jones and Geoff Tinkler. This pair are VERY photogenic! We started […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 3 million, adam jones, beach, black and white, camera, canon eos 5d mk2, clingfilm, colour, digital, fine art, gansey, geoff tinkler, isle of man, mono, music, phil kneen, Simon Campbell