Keith Rutowski

Writer, Photographer, Filmmaker

I'm a writer, photographer, and filmmaker living in Seattle, WA. My projects often relate to bonds between people and place, the existential weight of history and memory, and the indomitable human spirit. "Once The Ground... read on

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Once the Ground Thaws

By Keith Rutowski — Once The Ground Thaws Role : Co-Writer & Co-Director Category/Year : Fiction, 2017 Synopsis : Several months after her mother's death, a..

Mar 8, 2020

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Dust of the Earth

By Keith Rutowski — "Been digging graves a long time," Dorsel Bibbee says from the kitchen of his log home in rural, snow-covered Southeast..

Oct 15, 2019

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In Her Own Hands

By Keith Rutowski — In Her Own Hands Role : Co-Cinematographer & Co-Editor Category/Year : Nonfiction, 2015 Synopsis : Sarah Fick has forged a life off-grid that..

Mar 8, 2020

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Coolville, Ohio

By Keith Rutowski — In 1814, Simeon and Heman Cooley—sons of a New England Minute Man—settled a plot of land in the wooded, rural hills of southeast Ohio..

Sep 10, 2019

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Wheeling: Endurance of the Spirit

By Keith Rutowski — The city was molten dreams. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, r esidents of Wheeling, West Virginia found opportunity in its surrounding coal..

Mar 31, 2020

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Once the Ground Thaws

Updated Mar 08, 2020

Daughters, Dreams, Dying/Death, Emotion, Family, Fathers, Fiction, Film, Fine Art, Hope, Loss, Love, Narrative Film, Videos

Dust of the Earth

Updated Oct 15, 2019

appalachia, Black and White, blue collar, cemetery, documentary photography, dorsel bibbee, Dying/Death, Essays, gravedigger, graves, labor, manual labor, ohio, photo essay, work

In Her Own Hands

Updated Mar 08, 2020

appalachia, conservation, Environment, footprint, heritage, off grid, rural, rural ohio, self reliance, sustainability, Videos

Coolville, Ohio

Updated Sep 10, 2019

Blue Collar, Community, Documentary, Economy, Ohio, Photo Essay, Photography, Rural, Rural Ohio, Small Town, Transportation, Working Class

Wheeling: Endurance of the Spirit

Updated Mar 31, 2020

Aging, Appalachia, Blue Collar, Community, Documentary, Historical, History, Home, Hope, Industrial, Industry, Labor, Loss, Manufacturing, Photo Essay, Photography, Resilience, Rust Belt, West Virginia, Wheeling, Wheeling West Virginia, Working Class, Youth