light struck
photography is light striking paper, it is light drawings it is sun prints it is the paper or film’s memory of what was in front of it . I made
Tag: photogram
cameraless photograph also called a rayogram
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
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
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
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
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
waxed field and photograms
another from a recent slew of waxed negative cyanotypes one of the last coated papers from the winter/spring when i coated and coated to use up my sensitizer. the paper
emulsive
i thought i posted a link to this but i guess it got away from me. i was interviewed by emulsive.org a little while ago about film and emulsion and
more recent cyanotypes
if you have been reading my last few posts you probably know i have been making cyanotypes. what happened was i mixed a bunch of cyanotype chemistry and rather than
recent cyanotypes
just made a handful of cyanotypes lately using paper coated and left in a light safe in a humid basement for the last 7 or 8 months. the paper was not
a few photograms, with hand made emulsion
i love making photograms. they only take a second, and they are a blast.
the plates were still wet
the plates were sill wet, so i made some sumatranol 130 into a reversal developer / monobath and made some photograms. they are still hanging too ( all rc paper
pine branches and needles
today i was cleaning up the darkroom a little bit actually, i was looking for an unprocessed paper negative ( eventually found it ) and while i was putting things