The camera as a truth teller
For a few decades now I have made photographs that are a reflection of what is in front of the camera. That’s how a camera works, it isn’t really something
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.
View from above
I have been making reimagined landscapes for over a year. They are there but they aren’t there. They are from my imagination and formed on paper with photo chemistry. The
I won’t show my bad results but..
The summer before COVID hit I was fortunate to meet up with a friend of mine who had a studio in Connecticut. He’s a retired Art Teacher, who is a
landscapes ?
The photographs taken as “landscape photographs” really are not what was in front of the camera at all. Well, they are what was in front of the camera but that’s
Peroxide Reversals
A long while ago when I learned you could do hopefully simple reversals with photo paper ( that is you make the exposure and instead of using developer stop and
silver magnets and trickle tanks
If you do darkroom photography you might end up with fixer and wonder what to do with it. Should you toss it down the drain or try to recycle it
leaf and water
i slept last night and wasn’t still. I closed my eyes and saw a leafit floated down the stream, not too fast or slowit bounced off of rocks got stuck
Its been .. forever
Yeah I know it has been forever since I wrote something here. I have a few excuses, but the long and short of it is that my life was turned
Xerox Internegatives
A few recent sun prints using inexpensive Xerox Transparancies. Usually when people make digital negatives they use fancy printers, spend hours and days profiling their printer and image to look
What to do …
For years I have had a camera and while I have always known what to do (push button send out or process myself) I have never really known what to
riverside / near wachemoket
sometimes i go under the bridge and look to the other side this time i looked across the river to wachemoket makes me wonder what life was like without the
some of the buildings and structures in boston
i lived in or near boston for around 15 years. and while it has changed a lot since i left ( 1998 ) it is still very much the same.
Continue reading…some of the buildings and structures in boston
the millpond
sometimes i just leave i drive and don’t know where i will end up i expose some film i put it away and eventually find myself with processed film ..
boston cambridge
sometimes i drive to boston with a camera i stop at alewife station and take the T into the city about a year ago there were demonstrations on the boston
ARAX60 !
it seems that i have been asleep at the wheel for the past 8 months but i assure you i haven’t ! its been a really strange new year (
