Description this print is made with one of the earliest photographic processes. it is a sun print made by putting a negative ontop of a sheet of photographic paper and leaving it in the sun. the sun prints the image on the paper, and i scan it. these images can not easily be fixed / made light safe.
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.