Description the evergreens were red as the sun drew them on the paper.this is a sun print. it is made from paper that i coated with light sensitive emulsion. i placed the evergreens on the paper and the sunlight created this image. unfortunately, there is no way to make this image permanent, 'fixer' which is usually used will erase the image, so it is scanned. the dots, marks and lines are part of the process, the brush strokes show that the emulsion was painted.
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.