This collection of images features photographic love letters that touch on the infinite varieties of love, from love of place to the emotional feeling of love, as well as the love that grounds us within conflict and purpose.

From the physical states of water to the metaphors within the water cycle, Kinship members celebrate the beauty, power, and depth of elemental water.

During Kinship’s mid-stream gathering, members shared images and brief stories that illuminated themes of beauty, ecology, advocacy, sensation, metaphor, and transformation. This gallery features some of the images from that online gathering.

Members of the Kinship community responded to a call to share their Water Stories as a way to begin our collective exploration of the element of Water. This gallery brings together some of the images from that gathering.

If fire speaks, what is it saying to us, especially in an era of climate breakdown and mass extinction? How can photography help us keep and tend to our elemental fire with care?

Between January and November 2024, seven Kinship community members gathered thirteen times to ‘reimagine’ loss and grief. Whether intentional or in our subconscious, we influenced one another in an unspoken call and response: One person’s vulnerability inviting others to let go; another person’s way of seeing inspiring new perspectives. Honestly and bravely we kept messing around in our collective ‘sandbox,’ letting the grit and grime that is loss and grief transform within, between and among us.

Kinship community members responded to three prompts adapted from Joanna Macy and Molly Brown’s book Coming Back to Life and recently featured on We Are The Great Turning podcast. These are our responses.

Where do our bodies end and other bodies begin? How does our understanding of the edges of our being influence us? For six weeks, practice group participants of A Complex Definition of a Body met and worked in a diverse range of photographic techniques to play with the complexity of defining what a body is.