Description this hidden waterfall is tucked away off the main roadno one knows it is there. the mill it powered is gonebut this waterfall still stands ...this is a contact print made with a 4x5' black and white negative taken with a box camera from around 1896. the film was put in a contact printing frame and exposed to the sun for 4 hours. these sun prints only last for a little while, they vanish when exposed to light, or they turn black.
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.