waxing paper negatives revisited
If you have been here before you might have read a post I made a long while ago where I described how to wax paper negatives (https://www.nanianphoto.com/blog/how-you-make-waxed-paper-negatives/ ) .. I
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.
Providence RI Office Buildings
I sometimes wander around with a graflex slr and make some exposures. These were made around 2006, I was searching for one photograph and I found others, it always works
Photographs tell a story
It doesn’t matter what photographic process it is, camera less, chem gram, with a camera whatever, they all tell a story. It doesn’t matter. The photograph is more than an
Eyes open
For years I have wondered what photography was. Is it an “art form”, is it a “craft” is it a “science” ? With the invention of consumer photography in the
Quebec revisited
A handful of years ago I went to Quebec. I wandered and ate and socialized. I brought a camera and photographed what caught my eye, and I have printed some
If you remember something, you probably don’t really remember it …
A couple of Fridays ago I was listening to Science Friday on the radio and I heard a comment that a Neurologist made about memory. I’m paraphrasing but she said
Continue reading…If you remember something, you probably don’t really remember it …
Just doing
I spend less and less time reading and going to photography forums. These places are filled with photographers or aspiring photographers, and a lot of cranky people. So much time
workshops and lessons
I’ve been making photos of one sort or another since I was 4 years old and was given a hand-me-down camera. When I was in high school began taking formal
self portraits
I don’t usually do self portraits but lately I have been making them. I’ve been reflecting a lot about the things I have been doing and what I want to
Documentary photography
If you look at this blog you would probably never realize that for a longtime I have been doing documentary photography. The thing that got me interested in photography at
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
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
