Italy

Certain truths do not change with time. For nearly a century, the church St. Antimo has stood in a glen near Montepulciano. For every one of those years, golden light has illuminated her arches and corridors. Even before the structure was erected, that light flooded the hills and valleys surrounding the glen. That same light would fill other spaces today, if given opportunity. The church - sitting alone, save for wild poppies - is a lesson in yielding to that opportunity. In photographing the luminescence streaming through her, we allowed time to collect the gathering light, as we shot exposures of 30 and 40 seconds. We kept as quiet as possible, so as not to disturb the contemplative monks, their chanting, or the mass itself. In the solitude, silence and stillness of that timeless place, an unchanging truth was brought to our remembrance: “Be still and know that I am God.”