16 Years.

October 27, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

Almost a year to the day after I first visited and photographed inside The Jungle, France has all but obliterated its biggest and most troublesome migrant camp. What expanded over the space of sixteen years was destroyed in less than two days. I first visited the migrant camp in Calais last October, and before I go any further, I think it’s important to note that The Jungle is, or was, a migrant camp, not a refugee camp. Nobody will ever […]

Categories: film photography, photojournalism • Tags: 35mm, calais, film photography, france, grande-synthe, migrants, the jungle

No, means no.

January 15, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

All images made using an Olympus MjuII compact and various film (Kodak Portra, Fuji Superia and Agfa Vista). Developed and scanned at UK FILM LAB 

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: 35mm, calais, film, france, I shoot film, kodak, migrants, Olympus mju II, Portra, the jungle

An Ordinary Day

January 10, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

Christmas Day in the Jungle was pretty much as I’d expected, most of the people there are either Muslim or Orthodox Christians… Muslims don’t do Christmas, obviously, and the Orthodox Christians don’t celebrate it until the 7th January. So the 25th December was much like any other day, in fact the only real sign of the festive season was an English charity worker wearing a mince-pie jumper, a Santa hat, pushing a wheelbarrow… actually one of the few aid workers […]

Categories: photojournalism • Tags: calais, france, fuji superia 400, kodak portra 400, migrants, Olympus mju II, pentax 67, portrait, the jungle

Happy Christmas from The Jungle!

December 24, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

This is a very quick post from Calais to say Happy Christmas! Thank you, everyone, for taking the time to stop-by, it’s very much appreciated. I’m going to be in The Jungle tomorrow (Christmas Day), sharing the day with people from all over the world – some celebrate Christmas, others don’t, but I’m sure it’s going to be great fun! I’ve been photographing in the camp for over a week now and have been shown nothing but kindness (forgetting one […]

Categories: Photography, photojournalism • Tags: calais, christmas day, iphone 6, migrants, the jungle

Maybe…

December 16, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

Wednesday 16th December – I arrived in the migrant/refugee camp at Calais today to start shooting a two-week project that will see me here until 29th December. In the six weeks since I was here last The Jungle has grown and changed beyond recognition – any empty areas in the main camp, no matter how seemingly unusable they looked, have now been filled with tents and makeshift shelters. At the far end of the camp, a patch of sand dunes […]

Categories: Photography, photojournalism • Tags: banksy, caiais, france, migrants, the jungle

Hal kuring nempo…

November 19, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

A lot of people are surprised to learn that I’m shooting the vast majority of my Calais project using a 20 year-old, second-hand Olympus Mju II 35mm film compact. I’m using a medium format Pentax 67 too, but only really for the more ‘formal’ portraits. Wandering around The Jungle with a brace of professional DSLR’s slung around your neck is not a great idea. For my next visit in a couple of weeks I’ll be taking two Mju II and […]

Categories: Photography, photojournalism • Tags: calais, film, france, I shoot film, kodak, kodak portra 400, Olympus mju II, refugee, the jungle

Nous étions des étrangers

November 18, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’ve been travelling around Scotland for the last week or so – shooting a bit of a mini-project photographing strangers. Because of this, and a lack of internet access, I haven’t really been following current world events too closely. But like everyone, last Saturday I awoke to the terrible news of the massacre of 129 innocent people in Paris. Straight away I realised that the ongoing project I’m shooting in Calais’ refugee camp, ‘The Jungle’, was now going to become […]

Categories: Photography, photojournalism • Tags: calais, film, film photography, france, migrant, Olympus mju II, paris, pentax 67, refugee, the jungle

Oz

October 23, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

When things turn to shit, there really is no place like home. After a string of pitfalls toward the end of the first month of my European road trip, I’ve decided to return to my home on the Isle of Man, just for a couple of weeks, to level-out. I feel like a kids jigsaw that’s been put together, but with all the pieces in the wrong place. I need to reassemble that jigsaw! Contrary to what a lot of […]

Categories: Photography, photojournalism, travel • Tags: analogue, calais, colour, film, film camera, film photography, fine art, france, fuji GW690III, I shoot film, isle of man, kodak portra 400, kodak portra 800, men 6x9cm, migrants, phil kneen, portra 160, portraits, road trip, spain, the jungle, travel