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
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.
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 (
new year old post, maybe ..
well, its 2018 .. and i have gone back to my roots, sort of. for a handful of years i did my best to become a better printer by printing
peroxide reversals part 2
well, as seen by my last entry i was able to get it to work a couple of weeks ago so i attempted yesterday to do it again. so inbetween
peroxide based photographic reversals
im back at attempting to making direct postive reversals again. there have been a number of different ways to do these over the years, some use toxic chemistry ( sulfuric
back to the 1920s
ive traced my roots in photography, to the 1920s i think. my values seem to revolve around people like the dadaists and rusian constructavists and surrealists more than the new traditionalists
late summer photographs
just a taste of what i have been doing lately. it includes using a cyclone #3 and empire state … as usual, i have been off the beaten path, i
sun print
i realized last week the emulsion is sensitive enough to print through the photo paper if reversed. this was printed in full sun for about 1 hour
a few prints
this first prints were made by a digital overhead transparancy at my local copy shop originally it was a digital files taken in a snow storm at a local park.
chloro bromide emulsion #2
its been a while since i made the emulsion i wrote about here but that isn’t to say it hasnt been on my mind since a year ago january. i’ve been
a few hand tinted images
first .. i probably have said this or explained my “terminology” if i add colors by hand with paints &c i call the images hand painted, but if i
