Description It is nearly invisible unless you are a local. It powered the mills that are all gone now. The falls are the only thing left. this is a sun print made by contact printing a camera negative onto a sheet of photopaper in the sun for a number of hours. the positve image appeared after a long time, and i partially stabalized it in extremely dilute fixer ( 1:20 ) with a whole bunch of washing soda mixed in. it did not shift or turn grey after i scanned it as most of these sunprints tend to do. it did fade quite badly and turn grey eventually.
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.