Re-imagined Landscape
For a few months I have been posting images to my instagram feed that I put (reimagined landscape) in part of the description. I began putting these words next to
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.
Things you might do
It’s easy to get bored isn’t it? I know I’ll pick up a camera or my phone or recording device I have at hand and I just stare at it,
Trickle Tanks and “After” Kits
As I mentioned in an earlier post USI, the company I was distributing for isn’t around anymore, but another company grew up in it’s place. I have the price list
Silver Magnets and Trickle Tanks
You might have found this site because you have been directed here to learn about silver recovery products. Over the last 10+ years I had the privilege of distributing products
recent work
recent images made with silver and iron
Photography as a gateway drug
It has been a long time that I have been noticing stuff. I’ve daydreamed, watching light and shadows dance on the ceiling, and sometimes recorded these images on film or
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
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
