recent cyanotypes
if you have poked your head into my blog and website and / or instagram feed (@jnanian) you already know that I have been making cyanotypes for almost 20 years.
Category: alternative process photography
this category includes cyanotypes, glass, metal and hand made paper photographs as well as cameraless, and retina photography.
little books of cyanotypes
a little over a year ago I made a little book of cyanotypes. it has images on every page and the book is tiny. It’s a book whose images change
The overpasses
We pass this stretch of road every day. The road brings people on and off and down, and up and over. Concrete and metal and sometimes there is dead grass
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
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
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
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
quebec sun prints
a few summers ago i went to quebec i have wanted to make prints from the digital files, and the other day i finally got a chance to do it. the
electric midnight blue
working on a new project i am going to call electric midnight blue it uses a varient of the sunprints i have been making these images were all made today in overcast
contact sheets
aside from sending rolls of 110 or 127vp to the local drug store or fotomat, or mail away to yorks i processed my own black and white film. when i was
TMY retina image
as i have been making long exposures again here is another one on kodak tmax 400 film this is a very long exposure, reversed negative tweeked levels and color removed and then
cyclone negative cyanotype
a couple of days ago i was making some more cyanotypes i loaded up some contact frames with waxed negatives to see if i could get a better print than i did
the honey jar
there is a bee keeper on the other side of town i like to buy honey from. i usually drive down his drivewaywhich looks like it isn’t really there from
