Description from horseneck, near oakland beach looking across the bay towardspotowomut.this is photograph made from a hand coated photo paper .. i taught myself the craft of handmade photo paper as a student in college 25+ years ago. i recently started to do this again, and expose the plates in a camera from the 1800s which was made for glass plate photography. the camera is called a 'cyclone #3 magazine camera' and can be loaded up with upto 8 glass plates, but i use paper instead. i processed the paper negatives in a combination of coffee ( i roast the coffee myself ) and a very used print developer.
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.