Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were.

- John Paul Caponigro

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Perception, belief, action, and change are codependent.

- John Paul Caponigro

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.

- John Paul Caponigro

Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal.

- John Paul Caponigro

All photographs are about light. The great majority of photographs record light as a way of describing objects in space. A few photographs are less a…

- John Paul Caponigro

To be sure, not all moments are equally fleeting. Some moments last longer than others. And certain events do reoccur more than once and even recur r…

- John Paul Caponigro

It's one thing to make a beautiful thing; it's another thing to make a living thing.

- John Paul Caponigro

We see the world through our experience.

- John Paul Caponigro

We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.

- John Paul Caponigro