Your Body Decides the Photograph Before You Do - Photographer Tim Carpenter, E119

Your Body Decides the Photograph Before You Do - Photographer Tim Carpenter, E119

June 11, 2026 · 1h 41m

About this episode

Matt Jacob interviews photographer Tim Carpenter about the philosophy of photography and the deeper meanings behind photographic images.

Matt sits down with photographer, writer, and educator Tim Carpenter, author of 'To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die' and photobooks such as 'Local Objects', 'Little' and 'Christmas Day, Bucks Pond Road', for a deep conversation on the philosophy beneath the photographic image. In this episode you will learn a way to understand why the form of a photograph, not its subject, is where its meaning and beauty actually live, and how working with a camera can teach you to make peace with a w...

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Host: Matt Jacob

Guest: Tim Carpenter

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Books & works: To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die, Local Objects, Little, Christmas Day, Bucks Pond Road

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