Description this abstraction was made from hand coating writing paperwith liquid photographic emulsion, and leaving it in the sun for a week. when it looked 'ready' i added crayon. unfortunately, this image can not be made 'light safe' and will vanish if fixed using photo chemicals, it is also turning dark from exposure to the scanner beam and room light.this is a scan of a photographic print, not a digitally manipulated or computer generated graphic.
J Nanian, Warwick, RI Member Since November 2007 Artist Statement Hello, I am a working photographer, who uses a variety of processes to make photographs. Most work here originates as a sheet of paper, glass metal or plastic that is coated with light sensitive materials. I use coffee as a film and paper developer. Some of the photographs you see here are made using a 200 year old process and the images are photographs that are unstable. Scanning them is the only way to preserve them. Other images here are cyanotypes, a process invented in the 1840s that uses 2 iron based compounds that convert to a stable image when in the presence of ultra violet light.