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?

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.