Wednesday, July 23rd, at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Can we bend time back on itself through image, text, and narrative? Photographer Raymond Thompson Jr has done just that in his new book ‘It’s hard to stop rebels that time travel’. Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at Raymond’s book publishing process as we celebrate Raymond’s newly released book. This stunning and multi-layered book features archival fragments, historic ephemera and his own photographs to focus on previously concealed stories of slaves, maroons, and runaways.

July 16th 2025 @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

The photographic practice is a product of all things elemental (water, light, time), inviting us to be in direct response to and in accordance with the natural changes within the world around us. This allows for wondrous chance happenings to exist, and in these moments of joy and play, we keep returning to the elemental. Join us for a rich conversation with Daniel Hojnacki about his experimental photography and how the element of fire inspires his creative practices. For Daniel, fire’s influence lies in the delicate atmospheric nature of its grace.

July 9th 2025 @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

As we continue our explorations of fire together this week, we will be considering the ways that we can feed the fires of our creative practice. What sustains our creative flames, and in turn, how do those flames sustain us? Join us for a conversation with multimedia artist nat raum in which they discuss finding inspiration across media, mixing writing and visual artwork, and independent publishing as a home for multimedia publications. They will also touch on community as a driving force for creativity, as well as how co-curricular pursuits such as writing, editing, and curating can supplement any artistic practice.

June 25th 2025 @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Have you ever longed for a daily practice, or wondered how it might enhance your photography? Over six weeks, seven photographers met in a small supportive group to build and sustain a consistent and regular photography habit. Together they explored a framework for inspiration, sharing, and accountability while fostering a more intentional and fulfilling photographic practice. Join us this week as we learn more about their approach to cultivating and sustaining a daily practice.

June 18th 2025 @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join us as we explore the second element in Kinship’s year-long exploration of an elemental life. Paul Wanta, Sarah Barker, and Frances Bukovsky will be sharing how fire has lived in and shaped their lives and creative process. We hope you will join us as they share images, quotes, and questions that breathe life into our practice and light the creative flames for this upcoming season.

June 11th 2025 @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

In Bodies Connected by Air, participants explored the relationships that bodies have to air, and through air, to each other. Over 5 weeks, we used self-portraiture and embodied photographic practices to explore the way we personally experience air in our bodies, and then shifted our lenses to the exchanges that occur through shared experiences of air.

June 4th 2025 @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

During this exploratory practice group, participants utilized the power of embodied rituals, contemplative practices, deep reflection, and playful intuition to explore their fundamental relationships to the element of “air”. Together, we pondered whether embodied practices could awaken new ways of seeing and feeling and in what ways that might shift what and how we photographed.

Wednesday, May 28th @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

For Chelsea Silbereis, her art and parenting practices are intrinsically intertwined, which centers her values. Please join us for a dynamic conversation with Chelsea as she shares recent work that explores how it feels to be in a family and how inheritance can be like a breath of wind filtering through every aspect of our experience. Whether good or bad, born or invented, family is our foundational experience and is intrinsic to our humanity and how we show up in society at large. Together we will be exploring the role of photography in family life.

Wednesday, May 21st at 7 pm EDT on Zoom

It’s been about eight weeks since we launched our Elementals: Air call for engagement and we are eager to hear how it’s going. 

Please join us this week for a Mid-air conversation. We invite you to share your experiences thus far - - How has exploring “air” shifted your practice? Is your work soaring to new heights or has it been challenging to find your balance with this particular element? Everyone is invited to talk about their experiences and share up to five images from their own screen.

Wednesday, May 14th @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

This week in our ongoing exploration of air, we will be looking to those kin who have an intimate understanding of this element (beyond human understanding), birds. Join us as Teresa Kopec presents bird appreciation and a skill share to encourage us to consider how we can better relate to our bird-kin. Teresa Kopec has been photographing birds internationally and in her own backyard for years. In this talk she will share experiences and tips on connecting with these magnificent creatures of the Air through observation and photography.

Wednesday, May 7th @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

As we continue to explore the element of air as the medium that carries and stimulates a multitude of sensations, emotions, and images, we invited our Kinship community to consider how smell might impact the way we make photographs. Photographers were invited to consider how smell impacts their sense of kinship and how that changes the way we see, feel and make photographs. Join us for a Kinship Show & Share and we explore the photographs and experiences of each contributing photographer.

Wednesday, April 30th @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join us this week as photo-based artist and visual researcher Jake Eshelman considers scent as both a creative medium and an ecological language. His talk begins in the heart of the Costa Rican rainforest, where he will share his experiences and fieldwork with one of nature’s original perfumers: orchid bees. From here, Jake will offer us a glimpse into his creative practice, where he has recently begun exploring how olfaction can be the aesthetic and ecological power to build more intimate interspecies relationships.

Wednesday, April 23rd at 7 pm EDT

Celebrate the Earth’s flow as we share the photographs made by our Kin around the globe during our Earth Day photo relay. Together we will celebrate the magical synchronicities that arise through collaboration while reveling in the unique power of collective vision to shape and change how we relate to the natural world.

Wednesday, April 16th @ 7 PM ET via Zoom

Correspondences, a collaborative exhibition by 10 Canadian photographers, is a powerful example of the remarkable work that can be produced when artists gather in creative conversation with each other. Join us as we talk with each of the artists about their work and their experiences creating a collaborative exhibition.

Wednesday, April 9th, at 7 pm EST on Zoom

There is no better way to explore our elemental and essential relationships to photography than in a practice group. Join us this Wednesday for the opportunity to meet the practice group facilitators, learn more about each group, and choose the one that best fits your practice. Attendees on Wednesday will be given early access to practice group sign-ups.

Wednesday, April 2nd, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join kinship members Chris Warner-Carey and Lyn Swett Miller for this introduction to the first element, Air, in Kinship’s year-long exploration of an elemental life. They will share what they have learned from other photographers' relationships to air, as well as how they have come to more deeply understand this element through their work. Chris and Lyn will also share brief summaries of this spring’s practice groups in preparation for our more in-depth practice information session on April 9th 

Wednesday, March 26th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join us this Wednesday for a fresh-out-of-the-box tour of our newest call for engagement Elementals. In this latest “Call,” Kinship invites photographers to explore their relationship with air, fire, water, and earth. Drawing on the Elementals book series from The Center for Humans & Nature.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, March 19th, 7 pm EDT

Over the past year, we have come together to explore embodied photographic practices that are grounded in the senses, shared conversations between bodies, noticed and deepened the relationships that connect all bodies. Join us in a celebration of the work created by the Kinship community around the Between Bodies theme. During this gathering, we will also be introducing our new call, Elementals, which we will be unfolding over the coming weeks.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, March 12th, 7 pm EDT

Photography allows us to search for meaning and celebrate the mysticism of the mundane. From the ordinary to the abstract, we find in our images both beauty and tension.  Join Alli Harper and Kaye Savage as they share photographs and reflections inspired by the following questions: How can we find metaphor in the journeys of sediment, from its origin in rock to its settling as mud and the creatures that inhabit it? How can our photographic practice help us navigate chaos by claiming beauty? Can the personal become universal through our unique practices, as photography takes us where words cannot?

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, March 5th, 7 pm EST

Join Julie Williams Dixon and Paul Wanta for a Between Bodies inspired conversation about transience and presence. In Julie Williams Dixon’s collection Between transience and eternity: one afternoon at the river, she pondered the transience of her physical body in juxtaposition to ancient surroundings. In Paul Wanta’s ongoing project In This Place he celebrates the intimate, familiar, and fleeting landscapes near his home in Wendell, Massachusetts.