Jason W Dean

“Technical choices must be made with great care for your pictures, but even more importantly with the utmost respect for your separate self and your intelligence and the contents of your heart (which are - or should be - basically the same thing as your photographs).”
― 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

“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

“Similarly, we are thinking with and through the camera. This gets back to something I mentioned earlier: real in-the-moment thinking (and not the illustration of previous thoughts) happens when the impetus to the picture and the picture itself are one and the same. It’s not about what the photographer knows, but what she can make.”
― Tim Carpenter, To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die: An Essay with Digressions