36x24mm

February 8, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

My latest return to shooting film is lasting a bit longer than expected, I normally shoot a few rolls then slip back into the sterile convenience of digital, but not this time! I always have a film compact in my camera bag, either an Olympus MjuII (which all the images here were made with) or a treasured Minolta Hi-Matic that a good friend bought for me last autumn. One unpleasant thing I have noticed is that the price of film […]

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Virgin Ink

August 13, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

I love photographing people getting tattooed, I think I live my desire to get inked, vicariously, through anyone who is braver than me. Today I photographed Aga during her first ever tattoo session. Aga was letting tattoo artist, Lee Clark, ink a completely freehand design onto her stomach. She couldn’t have been in safer hands.  

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Lee

July 16, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

My good friend, Lee, has been plucking-up the courage to get naked in front of my camera for a long time now, but he does it so well. I take portraits that I hope will make people feel good about themselves, there doesn’t seem any point otherwise? I’ve recently found myself having to defend the content of my photographs, which irritates me a bit, they’re portraits, nothing more, there’s no hidden meanings. I see these type of shots as visual […]

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Inked

April 21, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

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