Wednesday, June 10th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join Kinship artist-in residence Megan Driving Hawk in conversation with Kat Davis and Ashley Czajkowski about their recent bodies of work that explore memory, time, and family. Both artists use the medium of photography and incorporate adjacent techniques such as installation, performance, and alternative processes to explore identity and personal stories. 

Wednesday, June 3rd, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

In Revisiting My Raising, Jillian Abir MacMaster shares how two separate photo series come together to explore her experience of being raised Catholic and as a Palestinian-American growing up around her grandmother. The two series are approached very differently; one through straight photography and the other through cyanotype studio photos incorporated with mixed media. Jillian Abir MacMaster is not only revisiting her raising, she is reclaiming it.

Wednesday, May 27th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join Erik Mace as he shares new work born from an ongoing inquiry into photography's relationship to truth — and what survives when memories fall apart. For the past six years, Erik has been introducing corruption into image files, feeding photographs back through their own data, letting digital photographs reorganize, decay, or come apart. In this new exploration of work, he has turned that process on an archive of images he could least afford to lose.

Wednesday, May 20th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

As photographers, we co-create with Time in a multiplicity of ways. Over the next twelve months, we have invited you to time-travel with us through one or more of the following three ‘doorways’: Deep Time, Inhabited Time, and Time-out-of-Time. Together we will journey into photographic explorations that experiment with making our relationship to Time more visible and intentional. For this open community conversation we are eager to hear how the questions and explorations of Time might be showing up in your imagination and your creative life

Wednesday, May 13th at 7 pm EDT on Zoom
Join us for a practice group meet and greet, ask questions, and find the practice group that best supports your creative practice. Attendees of the open house will get early access to practice group registration.

Wednesday, May 6th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join us for a fresh-out-of-the-box tour of our newest call for engagement Time. As photographers, we co-create with Time in a multiplicity of ways. We invite you to time-travel with us through three ‘doorways’ of time: Deep Time, Inhabited Time, and Time-out-of-Time.

Wednesday, April 29th, 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Interested in joining a space where your photography work matters? A community where people are as interested in your practice as they are in their own. We will be hosting an online open house to introduce you to Kinship and help you navigate our community's rich ecosystem ahead of our next big call-for-engagement. We would love to get to know you, and for you to get to know us! 

Wednesday, April 22nd @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

On Earth Day, you are invited to join Gavin Van Horn, co-editor of the Elementals book series, and John Hausdoerffer, the editor of volume five, An Elemental Life, for our final Elementals gathering. At this confluence of air, fire, water, and earth, we will bring the elements into conversation with one another by asking the practice-oriented question, What is an elemental life?

Wednesday, April 15th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

For nearly a year, we have invited photographers from around the globe to explore their relationship with the elements. As we moved through the elemental year together, each season brought a new elemental focus that guided our discussions and practices. As we wind down our elemental year, we invite our kin to gather and share their experiences.

Wednesday, April 8th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Paula Damasceno will take us on a journey through her artist book Initiation—an elemental work shaped by touch, repetition, and diasporic memory. Through its text and Riso-printed photographs, the work invites a haptic, slowed engagement where form and content continuously inform one another.

Wednesday, March 18th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join us as we celebrate our community’s engagement with Elemental: Earth. This season brought us into a relationship with Earth as living matter–soil, ground, and home. What depths did we find in Earth’s cycles? Did embodied photographic practices inspire earthy perspectives that awakened us to the transformative power of interdependence, connection, and care? Through practice, did we foster co-creative and collaborative partnerships with the living earth that invited mutual flourishing?

Wednesday, March 4th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Lesly Deschler Canossi's Substack, Widening the Lens, offers bite-sized, accessible pieces about photo and visual culture. Her writing has been a lighthouse for many of us at Kinship as we navigate the complicated and painful questions of this time. What role can photography play? Where has the medium gone wrong? And most importantly, how can beauty and art become acts of care in our current synthetic-image era?

Wednesday, February 18th, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

In celebration of Valentine’s Day, we are inviting you to participate in a community show and share that celebrates photography and love. Love is an invitation to the transformative work of justice, as well as the tender and relational work of attention and care. How do you photograph through a lens of love? If you were to imagine making a love letter through photographs, what would you photograph?

Wednesday, February 11th, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

Join us in conversation with Daniel Hansche as they share their unique experiences of animal tracking & perception, and how these skills invite new ways of seeing and responding to nature’s unfolding story with greater ease, depth, and clarity.  For millennia, trackers have cultivated an exquisite vision of the world far surpassing the original function of providing sustenance and safety. Similarly, photographers have long-developed acute observation skills, expressing and reproducing what they see and feel. What do these embodied practices have to offer each other? 

Wednesday, February 4th, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

In this dynamic conversation, Megan will share a body of work in progress through the lens of Imbolc, alongside a field guide she’s been making.  Through her beautifully layered work, Megan will generously unearth her equally layered process, which uses photography, data, timing, and seasonal observations to mark rituals along the Celtic Wheel of the Year and the Lakota Medicine Wheel, thereby creating and documenting a modern family culture of both traditions. Can the act of making a photograph be sacred? As multicultural people, how do we make honorable relationships with ancestral paths? Ours, and others? 

Wednesday, January 28th, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

Photography demands that we be in relationship with forces far beyond our control. Light shifts. Weather intervenes. The more-than-human world sets its own terms. The practice of Slow Looking offers a way to cozy up to our work, to be with it unhurriedly, and to notice what emerges when we stay a little longer than feels comfortable. During this gathering, we will engage in the practice of Slow Looking to learn how to talk about what we see and listen for what emerges.

Wednesday, January 21st, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

Over the course of three years, David Walter Banks paddled 500 miles and spent 69 nights deep in the Okefenokee Swamp. His resulting book, Trembling Earth: A Transcendental Trip Through the Okefenokee, is part activism and part spiritual epiphany. For David, the Okefenokee is more than its biological wealth; it holds a mystical energy that renders its well-trodden waterways terra incognita to the first-time visitor. Trembling Earth captures not only what can be seen but also what can be felt: the unmistakable yet ineffable quality of this primordial space.

Wednesday, January 14th, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

We will begin our exploration of Earth with photographers Mike Belleme and Lyn Swett Miller, both intimate with soil and the tender moments of life being made and unmade, composed and decomposed. Here we are invited to remember that the genus Homo is derived from the Latin word for “humus”—the dark, organic material that forms in soil. Together, we will ponder the depths that can be found in attending to Earth cycles and the role photography can play in awakening humility and returning us home to the ground of our being.

Wednesday, December 31st @ 7 pm EST on Zoom

Join us for a spacious, heartfelt conversation and year-end ritual. Together, we will mark the end of 2025 with images and stories. We want to hear about your inner and outer explorations, questions, triumphs, challenges, and inspirations - and your creative intentions and projects for the coming year.

Wednesday, December 17th, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

The third season in Kinship’s exploration of Elementals brought us on a shapeshifting journey as we explored our relationship with water. Our final Elementals: Water gathering will feature images made by the Kinship community, inspired by the questions and visual conversations of our immersion. We invite you to share 1-5 images by Tuesday, December 16th, at 6:00 pm EST to contribute to the community slideshow.

Wednesday, December 10th, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

In this five-week practice group, seven photographers explored water as both a literal and a metaphorical photographic subject. Water is unique in that it exists in all three states: solid, liquid, and gas. Together, this practice group explored water’s transitional states while asking: How does water’s fluidity manifest in natural and human-made environments, and how can it inform how we live our lives as artists?

Wednesday, December 3rd, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

Join us for the first in our series of Water Practice Group Circle Backs as we speak with participants of Objects Embodied facilitated by Lyn Swett Miller, and Bodies Connected by Water facillitated by Frances Bukovsky. Together we will explore how water inspired embodied photographic practices within these groups as they generously share from their work and experiences.

Wednesday, November 19th, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Ruth Kaplan’s The Bathers explores the balance between the intimate and the communal in the shared experience of public bathing. Ruth will share her early inspiration for the project, the challenges of long-term photographic documentary work, the experiential aspect of being both a bather and a voyeur simultaneously, and how she brought the work into the world through exhibitions, a book, magazine articles, and other forms of installation over an extended period of time. Together, we will explore photographic issues such as photographing strangers in environments that are private, the balance between participant and voyeur, and the impact of a photographer’s gaze.