Mañana nunca muere …

February 14, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

“We are nonchalantly throwing all of our data into what could become an information black hole without realising it. We digitise things because we think we will preserve them, but what we don’t understand is that unless we take other steps, those digital versions may not be any better, and may even be worse, than the artefacts that we digitised…If there are photos you really care about, print them out.” – Vint Cerf, Google I’ve been saying the same thing to […]

Categories: Music, Photography, photojournalism • Tags: Agfa Vista 200, camera, digital dark age, Epson v700, film, film camera, film photography, fuji film, I shoot film, kodak portra 400, music, musician, negative, pentax lx, phil kneen, portrait, Simon Campbell

Hasta la Vista, baby!

February 12, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

I got a pile of negatives and discs back yesterday, the fruits of my 5 week project in Spain beautifully processed and scanned at Peak Imaging. As soon as I got the scans up on my iMac screen I slipped further back in love with film and became even more disillusioned with digital photography. On each disc I had 36 completely different images, because when I’m shooting film I don’t feel the need to shoot 20 or 30 almost identical […]

Categories: Photography, photojournalism • Tags: 50mm 1.2, a pound a roll, Agfa Vista 200, £1, beard, camera, colour, Epson v700, face beard, film, film camera, film photography, fine art, music, musician, pentax lx, phil kneen, portrait, Simon Campbell, spain

Cafe Plaza Nueva

December 24, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

The Cafeteria Restaurante Plaza Nueva, Seron, Spain – my office for most of January 2015. I’m heading down to the southern Mediterranean to shoot a project on British Expatriates who are, for one reason or another, living full-time away from their country of origin. I’m not really interested in the people who are living there for ‘one reason’, one reason being the weather. No, I want to meet the people who are possibly hiding there for ‘another’ reason. I have […]

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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

Three become one…

May 17, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

The Nikon D800E, Nikkor 35mm 1.4G and VSCO software – a marriage made in Heaven…well, actually made in Japan and California, if we’re going to start getting pedantic. I use the D800E and 35mm for 90% of my personal and professional work. I think the 35mm is a perfect ‘Goldilocks’ lens – not too wide and not too telephoto, such a versatile focal length, with careful use you can make it look wider than it is, but you can also […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 35mm 1.4, black and white, camera, colour, digital, film look, fine art, I shoot film, nikkor 35mm 1.4, nikon D800E, personal project, phil kneen, portrait, Simon Campbell, VSCO, VSCO FILM

Suz and Simon get hitched.

May 14, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’ve just returned from a most amazing long weekend in Inveraray, Scotland, to witness the marriage of my close friends, Simon and Suzy. I wasn’t there as official photographer (I don’t generally shoot weddings), but I turned-out to be the only photographer there, so I willingly took-on the role! It was great just being able to wander round taking portraits of whoever I liked the look of…oh hold-on…that’s what I do anyway! I took a lot of photos, and I […]

Categories: Music, Photography • Tags: highlands, Inveraray, marriage, portrait, scotland, Simon Campbell, suz starlite, wedding

“It’s all about the light…”

April 15, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

I arrived in Valencia, Spain, yesterday to start a week-long shoot with musician, Simon Campbell, I’m doing the shots for his album cover and artwork. I wasn’t planning on shooting last night, but we took Simon’s dogs out for a walk and the light was fantastic, totally different to what I’m used to. For all the outside locations we’re going to need to shoot around dawn and dusk, which suits me, because it means I’ll be getting paid to sit […]

Categories: Music, Photography • Tags: music, nikkor 35mm 1.4, nikon D800E, phil kneen, portrait, promo, Simon Campbell, spain, valencia

Tres cervezas por favor…

April 8, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

It’s been a fairly quiet couple of weeks for me, my exhibition is already half way through its one month showing, it appears to have been received quite well, but negative feedback rarely gets back to the person who really needs to hear it. Last week I got some more shots of the very beautiful, Ciara, beautiful and extremely hard – I had her standing in a large sea pool, which I made her completely submerge in to get her […]

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Road Trip ’14

October 15, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

This week I’ve started planning my next big adventure, a road-trip of epic proportions – The Isle of Man to Moscow and back – a 4000 mile round trip. I’ve been all over the world, but never this part of the world, and what better way to see it? This probably isn’t a lot of people’s idea of fun, but I can’t think of anything better; load a vehicle with supplies and just drive, stopping off whenever and wherever you […]

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Music to my ears.

March 16, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’ve never been particularly musical, I wish I was, but I just don’t get it. Some people don’t understand apertures and ISO’s, I don’t understand cords and notes. Many people have tried to teach me, all have failed. I do like the music scene though, but how can you get involved if you’re tone-deaf? Take photos! I’ve been involved in music photography for a few years now, I’ve photographed the odd famous musician and a lot of not so famous […]

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