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It Starts with the Camera

It Starts with the Camera

It is photography, after all

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Sarah Carpenter
Aug 15, 2025
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Someone recently posted, “It doesn’t start with the camera, it starts with what’s inside of you.” I don’t know why I put quotation marks because I’m paraphrasing here. The sentiment she was trying to convey is a lovely sentiment, but I have to argue against it. I know this is semantics, but here we go.

Photography doesn’t start with what’s inside of you.…

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