Phil Knott's TALLY HO!, While I Babble With Derangement.

(above: poster edition I made for TALLY HO! Issue No.02.)

Having been raised in the UK along with punk rock, Phil Knotts photographic style is rough and energetic. Establishing himself as a serious photographer well before I was even out of school, I had seen his work in Raygun - grainy and cross-colored, his images stood out.
May 17, 2003, FAILE was putting together a group show / party at an abandon firehouse on Lafayette, one block below Canal. Phil, myself and Michael O'Neal were the only photographers in the show.
Six years later, Phil launched TALLY HO!, a newsprint-magazine (at bottom: a PDF version of Issue No.01.)
featuring many of his favorite artists, both established and emerging.
One of the most loyal and hardest-working motherfuckers around, and with ambitions practically bigger than he is. Phil's a right proper cunt - and of the best kind.

This from a series of interviews Phil did with t5m.com:
Photographer and artist Phil Knott’s portfolio includes clients such as Boy George, Justin Timberlake, Jude Law, Christian Bale, Kanye West, The Libertines, and countless others. Based in Brooklyn, Phil started out at Harrow college, but soon became frustrated at not being able to learn enough, quick enough. When he left university in his last year for a job at Click Studios, he worked as an assistant to some of the biggest names in photography. Phil tells t5m how inspired he was working with the likes of the great Mondino, ‘that was the one that did it for me - it was like fireworks going off’. The photographer explains how he thinks you get an ‘honest’ portrait out of a subject. Focusing on ‘the expressions, what people do in the off moments’, Phil prefers the subtler approach as opposed to cheesy, direct ‘wedding photos’. ‘There’s something nice about portraits when you have to look into them’. [t5m]

TALLY HO Issue No.02 is nearly complete. The online edition will be available March 1st.