Jason W Dean

“There is relief in the recognition that we are not so solitary as we suppose ourselves to be. That someone else managed to acquire a vantage that is somehow sufficient. That the longing which seems (and is) so personal is also a shared experience, in significant ways. Shared at the very least with the photographer who made something of it.”
― Tim Carpenter, To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die: An Essay with Digressions

“The limitations we sense in the photograph - of the actual and of time - are felt keenly by those who use a camera, in ways that are simply not realized by the painter or the poet or anyone else. Strangely, we can never seem to get enough of these particular limitations.”
― Tim Carpenter, To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die: An Essay with Digressions

“This divining is a wondrous thing. Because it does not stop, we must now take it a step further: just as the thoughtful viewing of a photograph can help us to understand its maker, the conscientious making of photographs can help one know - and even to create - one’s self.”
― Tim Carpenter, To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die: An Essay with Digressions

“Photographic seeing is an intentional way of continually discovering and rediscovering integrations of self and not-self. In a photograph, the mind of the maker is fleetingly apprehended.”
― Tim Carpenter, To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die: An Essay with Digressions