One of the most useful promotional tools I've used over the past year - I’m often asked about ‘what kind of photography’ I do. Whipping your phone out is fine, but I always think a physical copy is nice to hand out, so I had these made…sort of a multi layer business card.

Jiffy, skipper of Manx scallop boat, the James Lee RY.57.🇮🇲

Don't complain about having a 'hard day day at work' until you've tried being a fisherman...

The first morning of spring.

Thirteen Buttresses 'Thirteen Buttresses' Stonehaven, Scotland.

"I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air."

Friday The Thirteenth...

I've started making these little cuties today - 9x6cm, 30 images, Mini tape bound books; a very limited edition and a rare splash of colour from Japan. 🇯🇵

Yesterday, I said goodbye to a good friend. Godspeed, Dennis. 🚀

On the scallops 🇮🇲

‘No man is an island…’, except the Isle of Man, which is an island. 🇮🇲😊

The Midwest...somewhere. 🇺🇸

Hauling a net of scallops, 5 miles northwest of Peel, Isle of Man. 🇮🇲

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The Ginza Line, Tokyo, November '25. Once you see it...it can not be unseen. 😦💀🇯🇵

East Coast of Japan, south of Fukushima - the outgoing tide had left a very fine covering of black silt and fine seaweed. A passing vehicle exposed the white sand underneath, leaving a snaking trail away in to the distance.

Fishers Hill, Isle of Man 🇮🇲

The best way to work 😊

I’ve had an incredibly busy week putting together my handmade books, ‘Holmtown’. These from my latest batch are off to collectors in the US, Canada, Germany and Japan. 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇩🇪🇯🇵

philkneen.uk/2026/01/15/h... Now available to order 😊

“Holmtown’, my handmade book has been the end result of a lot of experimentation, but it got there. It’ll be available to order shortly… 😊

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Tape binding my handmade books - deeply satisfying (when you eventually get it right…) 👌

The queue isn't to see the thing anymore, to enjoy the thing - the queue is to photograph the thing to show everyone else that we've seen it.

The Hebrides 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Yesterday, after 10 years of work, I decided to give up trying to find a publisher for my book and just do it myself. This morning, literally 24 hours later, I got an email from a major publisher asking to share my decade long project. A much appreciated late Christmas present. 😊🙏

A pile of experimentation, frustration & evolution in the journey of handmade book production, but it’s a very satisfying journey that I’d recommend everyone tries. 👌

The final concertina/accordion test build - now time for full production!

Beautiful work

It’s incredible that places like this exist in modern Britain 😞

'The Jungle' Migrant Camp, Calais, France - I can't believe it's been 10 years! That's me, far left, with my assistant and two of the many men we met over the months...I wonder where they are now?

First shots with the Samyang 16mm 2.8 - it's a focal length with novelty, but a novelty which I think will wear off fairly rapidly... 🤣

When photographing on fishing boats, I’ve always craved a bit more width for a lot of situations. 21mm is as wide as I’ve ever used, 28mm for the past few years. So this new Samyang 16mm 2.8 is going to be a real departure for me, visually.

Strange how these two images, completely uncropped or adjusted, taken hours apart, seem to fit together perfectly to make another reality. 😳

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Scottish fisherman, Dougie Maculloch. 7 years ago, I spent two weeks with Dougie, 100 miles off the NW coast of Scotland.We became good friends. Soon after my return home,the skipper of the boat contacted me to say that Dougie was dead. He was one the kindest, funniest, most troubled souls I've met.

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General Observations 26/11 - RIP KEATON YATES

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