Midnight Cloud

July 13, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

For 11 days in June I joined Mike Cooke on an epic 5500 mile road-trip from England to the far north of Norway and back, a fairly arduous journey made even more difficult by the fact that Mike is confined to a wheelchair for most of his waking life. Mike, who has muscular dystrophy, asked me to join him on the trip, not only to document, but to share the driving. I’m writing a couple of magazine articles about the […]

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Arctic Adventure.

June 24, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

These are a few of my own personal snap-shots from a trip last week to Scandinavia, where I was shooting a story about disabled traveller, Mike Cooke (Mike actually prefers the phrase ‘less able’). I don’t normally shoot landscape type shots, but it’s almost impossible not to when you’re in a country as beautiful as Norway. Now I have to get busy writing two separate articles and editing the photos to go with them…

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Midnight Sun

June 3, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’ll tell you something – if you want to meet loads of really interesting, diverse, amusing, unusual, beautiful humans, get yourself a camera. The camera is a passport to the world of other people, people are never the same, so no shoot is ever the same – variety is the spice of life. In the last two weeks alone I have photographed 19 different individuals, and individual they are. Highlights of the last couple of weeks have been photographing Thurston Arrowsmith […]

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