This week on Lenscratch, Beate Sass and Ruth Steinberg will be sharing a collaboration with Lenscratch that focuses on aging. Both Beate and Ruth have their own featured projects that will be shared as well as three additional photographers, including Kinship member Sarah Barker, from the US, Canada, and Australia that will be presenting work throughout the week.

Deep Ruts, a triple entendre alluding to the deep roots of religion, a deer in rut, the ruts of the mind in which our ways of thinking and values carve into our daily lives, is a collection of photographs from Queer Appalachian photographer Julie Rae Powers who uses still images to represent their feeling of outsider status within their family and their own culture. A combination of portraits and landscapes set an isolating, longing stage using Appalachian iconography and self portraits to queer the standard notion of what being Appalachian is.

Estimated shipping date is March/April 2024. Pre-orders help support the printing of the book.

Issue #6 of Point A to B includes artists Morganna Magee, who was a featured Kinship artist, Susan Patrice, who is a co-founder of Kinship, Nettie Edwards, Judyta Grudzien, and Brent Mathison.

In Conversation features the work of Leah Frances (US/CAN) and Octavia Sharp (US), whose color images of retro architecture - diners and funeral homes, respectively - address deeper societal issues such as the political divide and the disappearance of family-run businesses.

Obtain a copy of Point A to B on their website.