Description the wind blew hardso hard it just ran awayThis was taken using a falling plate camera ( also known as a magazine camera ) called a Cyclone #3. it is meant to be loaded with coated glass plates ( 12 of them ) and in a vertical stack. once the image is exposed a knob is wiggled, the plate falls, and the next one is ready to expose. i usually load it up with photo paper and make paper negatives, this time I loaded it with paper I coated myself ( hand made photo paper )
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.