In today’s episode, W. Scott Olsen speaks with Karen Hutton, an award-winning international landscape and travel photographer, mixed-media artist, educator, author, and professional Fujifilm X-Photographer.
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Karen Hutton is an award-winning American landscape and travel photographer, mixed-media artist, educator, and author, widely recognized for her emotionally resonant imagery and her ability to translate visual experience into meaningful storytelling. A longtime Fujifilm X-Photographer, she is known for images that balance a strong sense of place with atmosphere, light, and a deep emotional undercurrent that invites viewers to slow down and feel.
Beyond her photographic work, Hutton is a sought-after educator and speaker who has taught and inspired thousands of photographers worldwide through workshops, online courses, books, and major creative platforms. Her teaching focuses not only on technique, but on cultivating presence, curiosity, and personal voice—encouraging photographers to connect more deeply with both their subjects and themselves.
At the heart of Hutton’s work is a belief in photography as a transformative practice: a way of seeing that fosters awe, mindfulness, and emotional connection. Whether creating images, writing, or teaching, she consistently emphasizes creativity as a human experience—one rooted in wonder, intention, and the courage to see the world, and oneself, more clearly.
KAREN HUTTON
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