Jason W Dean

“While we can’t arrange the world with a camera, we have the ability to create significant associations between the things of the world and time in the photograph, and these purely pictorial correlations can help us to manifest and understand their ineffable counterparts of the within and the without.

The camera is all about creating relationships that are unreal (in that they never existed in the world) among things that are absolutely and recalcitrantly real. In fact that all it can do.”
― 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

“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