Time & Perspective Quote by Kim Weston

There’s a sly charm in how Weston shrugs off the romantic mythology of the photographer-as-roving-hunter. “That’s not to say” is the verbal equivalent of a half-smile: a preemptive defense against the inevitable accusation that she’s quit the world. She hasn’t. She’s just choosing, deliberately, not to perform the most marketable version of her craft.

The line turns on “outside again,” which lands less as literal geography than as an artistic posture. Contemporary photography culture still fetishizes the field: the pilgrimage, the decisive moment, the proof of hardship. Weston gently punctures that by treating “going outside” as optional, almost quaint. Her real enthusiasm is reserved for “this process,” a phrase that re-centers authorship where audiences often refuse to look: in the darkroom, the edits, the sequencing, the slow problem-solving that doesn’t photograph well.

The subtext is boundary-setting. She’s describing a season of immersion, the kind of inward, iterative labor that can look like absence to everyone else. Saying she’s “having a great time” is not just cheerful; it’s a declaration that solitude, repetition, and technical rigor can be pleasurable rather than penance. For a medium that’s increasingly flattened into content and output, the sentence is a small act of resistance: the work isn’t the capture, it’s the becoming.

Contextually, it also reads as a quiet rebuttal to speed. A photographer in her generation has watched the industry pivot from craft to churn. Weston’s point is almost radical in its calm: the process is not the delay; it’s the destination.