dream
I dreamed last night that I looked at photographs of the new crimean wars. the images appeared and slowly faded to white, like a sunprint being fixed. I walked with
Author: jnanian
I am a Freelance Photographer in Rhode Island. I make photographs using a variety of methods with and without a camera. I make photo emulsions from scratch, I coat my own photo paper and make cyanotypes too.
I am a huge fan of Caffenol, and instead of instant coffee, I roast my own beans and sell them. I also sell silver recovery products.
caffenol cookbook
as you may or may not know I am one of the people who contributed with the caffenol cookbook back in the day. I just noticed today when I was
more cyanotypes!
its been quite a while since I posted anything here but I have been making images, I have just been to busy to post anything here. I have been making
yesterday
yesterday I was drying a big sheet of paper with emulsion on it. I had coated some tracing paper to see if I could figure out the best way to
Retina Reversals ?
A few years ago I got this crazy idea to see if I could use the Silver Gelatin Ferrotype Developer system to invert retina prints. I did several tests years
immixing
to blend, mix together. For years I have been making photographs that take fractions of seconds or minutes to hours to expose. I recently decided to blend two images taken
Demolished buildings
I went back to the site down the street and set up in around the same place and rephotographed the demolition site. Trucks had been hauling off the former buildings
RIP 4 stores
AV ProductionsItalian BreadboxRI RentalsOcean Nails It was a long time coming but the backhoe knocked two of the 4 buildings down this past week, maybe next week the rest will
the coast
The other day I made long exposures for retina prints. I parked my car at the local seacoast park and propped my camera up on dashboard. I had to stick
learning from Las Vegas
Back in the 1990s I studied Historic Preservation Planning. There I studied Architectural History and City Planning, and techniques for saving / preserving the un/built environment from urban renewal. I
little books of cyanotypes
a little over a year ago I made a little book of cyanotypes. it has images on every page and the book is tiny. It’s a book whose images change
coffee visions
you’ve probably realized I like coffee. I photographed my cup of coffee for months and decided to publish a few in a little blurb book https://www.blurb.com/b/11159537-visions-from-a-cup-of-coffee
The overpasses
We pass this stretch of road every day. The road brings people on and off and down, and up and over. Concrete and metal and sometimes there is dead grass
nothing’s the same
I’ve been going through this period these days that can pretty much be summed up as nothing is the same… I spent from2003 to December 2021 at a website as
lame paper for cyanotypes
if you’ve made cyanotypes and applied the chemicals on the paper yourself you know what I am talking about. some papers work great, some papers are kind of pathetic. I