Nature is the art of God.
        — Dante            

Twenty years ago, the camera gave me an excuse to escape periodically from the pace of life and reset my perspective in a fresh environment. It immersed me in nature, forced me to slow down.   Over time, the effort to find and compose images began to teach me to see differently.  It gave me new stories to tell and challenged me to tell them. 

The natural world is telling us something. In the midst of our culture’s disorder and strife, the creation is pointing us to an enduring truth, beauty and goodness. As W. B. Yeats put it, “There is another world, but it is in this one.” Nature’s extravagance and cohesion draw us into that world, inviting us to find the place all the beauty came from, to see another reality, to imagine a different way of being human. It tells a story, an epic tale that requires every faculty, including imagination, to apprehend it. Words alone are not adequate to tell that story.

My photographs are a humble attempt to capture and reveal glimpses of that grand story, peeling away, if only for a moment, the film of familiarity that often obscures from my distracted and rationalistic mind what is real and true and lasting.

Keith Dutill
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

First Place, 2026 ICM Photography Competition
Featured Artist, Landscape 2025 Exhibition, Grid Photo Gallery