behind the bank
I photograph behind buildings, those are the last to be “renovated”. the sun was shining I pointed the camera and counted to 7 the box did it’s thing I emptied
Tag: traditional photography
The escape route
Sometimes I make a photograph and in my head there is a background to it, not where it was taken or what it is but a story I create just
anything can be converted
I hate to say how many years ago but let’s just say 35 .. about 35 years ago I decided to do whatever I could to become a better printer.
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.
more 7 seconds
I’ve been making more and more 7 second impressions using both a graflex D and an old sears Delmar box camera. I set the camera on a tripod or hand
seven
What can happen in seven seconds? it takes about 7 seconds to tie a tie, to tie your shoe, pick a lock and if you’re good solve a rubik’s cube.
Latest images
These are camera less photograph. It is made by putting objects in direct contact with light sensitive photographic paper which is exposed to light and the impression of the objects
periphery
neither in or out on the edge on the outskirts in a state of limbo almost forgotten half awake half asleep when I was photographing a local historic site I
Photographs tell a story
It doesn’t matter what photographic process it is, camera less, chem gram, with a camera whatever, they all tell a story. It doesn’t matter. The photograph is more than an
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
Quebec revisited
A handful of years ago I went to Quebec. I wandered and ate and socialized. I brought a camera and photographed what caught my eye, and I have printed some
Documentary photography
If you look at this blog you would probably never realize that for a longtime I have been doing documentary photography. The thing that got me interested in photography at
the river
I looked out the window and the world passed fast like it always does. the brown fades to blue and eventually black under the shadow of night. the sun peeks
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
Cyanotypes
The past 14 years I have had a love affair with making cyanotypes. It all started when I was in the chatroom of a website I used to go to
