Originally from Texas, Dotson graduated from Austin community collage and worked as a art director and taught art and design at the Austin community collage and the Texas state technical collage as a curriculum advisor. As an avid traveller, Dotson has carried a camera across the world in places like India, above the artic circle in places like Greenland and of course, his home turf of the US. Currently residing in Nashville, Tennessee he is enjoying the live music, southern food and the beauty of the world around him.
As a contemporary photographer specialising in black and white images, Dotson drawn to and creates beautiful images of landscapes, cityscapes and abstractions of nature. his images have been displayed in may places across the US. Dotson has also authored books about photography: Unloved and Forgotten: Fine Art Photographs of Abandoned Places, published in 2019, and The Wheeling Portfolio, published 2022, and has also had his work featured in Ken Burns’ important 2022 book Our America: A Photographic History.
He believes the landscape has a spirit that’s shaped by its aesthetics, weather, geography, topography, history, and human activity. His photos allow for the beauty of things that wouldn’t normally be seen. for example, Dotson’s backside of a sunflower. This piece looks at a side of the sunflower that people wouldn’t normally look for.
Keith Dotson has a talent for picking out the decerped, abandoned and broken giving some longevity to them, giving them a new life as a gorgeous picture to be adored. There is a certain chill around his images that cause them to remain in the mind for a long time, they are not disturbing or unsettling but beautifully haunting.
Other work by Keith Dotson
