Face. Off.

February 26, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

“What makes a photograph of a person a portrait?” – a question I have been asked on more than three occasions… If the truth be known, I’ve never really fully understood the definition of ‘portrait photography’. Is a portrait a photograph of a person, or is it a photograph about a person? If it’s an image of a person, then is every single photograph that has a human in a portrait? I run photography workshops for beginners, one of the […]

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Please release me…

February 23, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

  One of the main reasons for shooting my Spain project on film was because I wanted honest, straightforward portraits of people, shots like these can often seem unflattering and harsh to the sitter. I didn’t want to shoot digital and have the constant distraction of people asking to see the shots as soon as I’d taken them, not liking them and asking me to take another…or not take another and leave as quickly as possible! But guess what I […]

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One.

January 20, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

“I do have a personal discipline of only taking one picture, of one thing…not two” – William Eggleston “I’ve never been able to take a picture with a digital camera, because I look at it on the back of the screen, then I try and do a better one, then a better one…then I don’t know what I’m doing” – Richard Billingham “The photographer has been a slave to the camera for a long time. Photography is not about the […]

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Hasta ahora, todo bien …

January 15, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

Hasta ahora, Todo bien… So far, So good, or at least I think that’s what it means? I used Google Translate, so it could say anything? I once used Google Translate to send a birthday message to a Swedish friend on Facebook, he hasn’t spoken to me since… So far, so good? Not quite. I shot a project in Yellowknife, Canada, a couple of years ago (it’s actually still an ongoing, long-term project), I arrived there with my good friend, and […]

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That was the year that was…

December 17, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

Juan McGuinness & Orca – my favourite image of 2013. Below are my runner-up favourites. All made using film and digital, 35mm and medium format, compacts and iPhones. Thank you to every single person who has helped me out over the past year, both in front of and behind the camera. Happy Christmas!

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PORTRAITS

November 22, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

All images in the exhibition will be previously unseen and unpublished. All images in the exhibition will be previously unseen and unpublished. Follow me on Facebook – Phil Kneen Photography

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Turn right at Warsaw…

October 23, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

This week there’s been a slight change of plan – I’m not driving to Moscow anymore, I don’t fancy the idea of traversing Belarus, I’ve heard a lot of bad things about the country. Also, visas are needed for Belarus and Russia, which would add nearly £1000 to the cost of a trip that I’m already planning on a very tight budget. So, I’m driving to Crimea in Ukraine instead, it’s about the same distance and I’ll get to go […]

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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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Holga wide

September 1, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

If I ever happen to be stranded on a desert island, an unlikely scenario, but let’s go with it, and for some reason I’m stuck with one camera and a bag of one type of film, what would they be? I won’t waste your time going through the cameras that almost made the number one spot, I’ll just come straight out with it – the Holga 120 Pan and a big bag of Kodak Tri-X 400 film. This camera cost […]

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All or Nothing.

June 17, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

I don’t know why, and I certainly don’t know what it says about me as a person, but I can not leave film in a camera; when I load a roll, whether it be 36 images on 35mm or 10 on 6x7cm, as soon as I start shooting I have to finish it. I don’t load film into a camera until I see something I want to shoot, so I can be driving along a road, see something that catches […]

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