Jason W Dean

“Choices of aspect ratio or lens coverage or film type are not just things that impact how your prints look on the wall or in a book. They are the very structure of your mind when it meets the world with a camera.”
― Tim Carpenter, To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die: An Essay with Digressions

“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 photographic enterprise of experimenting with and exploiting all these variables [camera, film, image format, lenses, etc] as a way of creating imaginative correspondences is really just a specialized or concentrated version of the way in which all people know the world in moment-to-moment experience.”
― 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