December 17, 2017 Falseness close to kin Tim Carpenter The picture necessarily fails both its maker and its subject matter. As painful as that sounds, it's actually ok: as a new thing in the world, the photograph is not to...
December 5, 2017 While walking with Mark Steinmetz Carl WooleyTim Carpenter Who better to roam the French capital with than Mark Steinmetz, author of Paris in my time? We started our conversation over breakfast in a bustling café in Montmartre and...
November 8, 2017 On hope Tim Carpenter Past experience (the self) and the current moment (the world outside the self) come together in a creative moment that only exists because of our hope, because we realize the...
September 26, 2016 I lost it Tim Carpenter A moment of unexpected loss is accompanied by a Lucinda Williams song . . . which invokes Vic Chestnut . . . who then summons Wallace Stevens and his "fabulous blackbird...
September 13, 2016 While walking with John Gossage Carl WooleyTim Carpenter A couple months after our publication of John Gossage's A Dozen Failures, we talked with John about that title, some of his previous projects, and the history of photobooks running...
August 22, 2016 The photographer's non-photography syllabus: Alec Soth Alec Soth I reflected for a long time on this request to name five non-photography books I would put on a syllabus for other photographers to read. As the months went by,...
August 9, 2016 The forest for the trees Tim Carpenter I’d always thought of the title of William Eggleston’s The Democratic Forest as a sort of mischevious redundancy. Left to its own devices, a forest is a model of democracy,...
April 17, 2016 The beauty in what remains Stefan Vanthuyne Raymond Meeks’s work challenges us, at those moments in our lives where a cycle comes full circle, to look for the beauty in what remains. Because only in that beauty...