You don't have a soul. You are a soul.
You have a body.
C.S. Lewis
“Mark McCarty’s portraits don’t resemble any being made today. When it seemed that every approach to the person, even the denial of any approach at all, had been exhausted by the camera, McCarty asks that we reconsider what we can know from the picture of another. We can’t seem to dispense with the portrait. Next to landscape photography, it is the genre with the most commercial lineage and the one that has come in for the most scrutiny by contemporary critics and artists.... Time is McCarty’s ultimate subject. The body lives it but cannot know it. Photography registers it but cannot stop it. These luminous photographs embrace it as our great shared mystery.”
Lyle Rexer
From “The Body in Time,” essay for Skin: Photography by Mark McCarty, Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY, 2011