the river
I looked out the window and the world passed fast like it always does. the brown fades to blue and eventually black under the shadow of night. the sun peeks
Author: jnanian
I am a Freelance Photographer in Rhode Island. I make photographs using a variety of methods with and without a camera, and I teach photography online and in person. I make photo emulsions from scratch, I coat my own photo paper and make cyanotypes too.
I am a huge fan of Caffenol ( I helped write the Caffenol Cookbook ) and instead of instant coffee, I roast my own Sumatra Robusta beans. I sell them so you can make your own long lasting, film and print developer called Sumatranol. I also sell silver recovery products.
The space station
Something like every 17 minutes the International Space Station flies around the earth. You can plug your location into this webpage https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/home.cfm and look to the horizon and see it
Making the invisible visible
Since I can remember I have been interested in what’s not really there. Clouds moving in the sky, smears of blood, pollen, bug parts on a slide, colonies that grow
Cyanotypes
The past 14 years I have had a love affair with making cyanotypes. It all started when I was in the chatroom of a website I used to go to
Risks
Do we take enough of them ? Too many? Not enough? I take risks in most of my photography, I get bored easily, I get tired of looking at the
Boat race
I make photographs and sometimes put them away and don’t look at them for months, sometimes the distance helps me not be attached to something I might have had a
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
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
