John Paul Caponigro CaponigroThinkers

Emptiness is that wherein we hallucinate if we are subjected to it long enough. This suggests that empty fields serve as mirrors, not for our exteriors, but for our interiors.

The Photographer is himself the strongest filter one can place before the lens - it points, as it were, both outward and inward.

Photography is as much about the self as it is about the object. The lens is pointed both outward and inward.

Photography is much more about elimination than inclusion. The images we make with a lens typically eliminate ninety percent of our field of view and everything that is out of our field of view. The shutter slices time, eliminating all moments before and after it opens and closes. Three dimensions are reduced to two. And in some cases color is removed.