Tim Carpenter is a photographer, writer, and educator who works in Brooklyn and central Illinois. He received an MFA in Photography from the Hartford Art School in 2012, and in 2015 co-founded TIS Books. Tim serves as a faculty member of the Penumbra Foundation Long Term Photobook Program, and as a mentor in the Image Threads Mentorship Program. He is the author of several photobooks, among them Christmas Day, Bucks Pond Road (The Ice Plant); A month of Sundays (TIS books); Local objects (The Ice Plant); township (collaboration with Raymond Meeks, Adrianna Ault, and Brad Zellar; TIS/dumbsaint); Bement grain (TIS/dumbsaint); Still feel gone (collaboration with Nathan Pearce; Deadbeat Club Press); Illinois central (Kris Graves Projects); The king of the birds (TIS books); and A house and a tree (TIS books). Local objects was included in the 2018 exhibition “American Surfaces and the Photobook” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and was listed for the Kassel Photobook Award 2018. Tim’s book-length essay To photograph is to learn how to die was published by The Ice Plant in Fall 2022.