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Of people and of places
Here’s a couple of photos to share with you, dear readers. I’ve decided to keep posting some of my work here in short blog entries rather than on social media platforms that require being glued to my phone. Many of the photos I have recently taken are in one way or another connected to the […]
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فندق تايتو وذكريات الرائحة
بنى فندق إتيغوي تايتو في عام ١٨٩٨ وسمي على اسم الإمبراطورة تايتو بيتول. إنها جنة صغيرة لأولئك الذين يحبون الأوقات الماضية مزيج من الهواء النقي والرطوبة تخترق الأنف بالفعل في الصباح الباكر. من اللوبي، يبدأون في الاختلاط مع التبييض. مدبرات المنازل يتزلجن مثل راقصات الباليه الخرقاء مع الخرق على أقدامهن على الأرضيات القديمة. في وجبة […]
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Scanning glass negatives – part two
About ninety percet of the negatives I have worked on are so dense that the scanner is unable to make the image come alive from the surface of the glass. I may use a lightbox instead of a scanner next, but first I need that box, or rather come up with some DIY solution. Yet, […]
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Scanning glass negatives – part one
These dry plates have been through a lot and they are in even worse shape that I had imagined with finger prints, scratches and holes. Sometimes it is impossible to save the contrast to see the faces of the persons photographed. But it is as fascinating as always to peek into the past, and imagine […]
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9×12 Dry Plates
Earlier in June we organized a cyanotype workshop in connection with White Nights artists residency with some amazing results. Now the summery days with experimentations continue. I have a few boxes of glass negatives of unknown origin and I’m about to start scanning them soon. Yesterday, with all this midsummer sun, I made the first […]
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Jarmo Pikkujämsä 