Join us via Zoom Wednesday, February 26th, 7 pm ET

Join Eliza Bell Sweizbach and Kaoly Gutierrez for a conversation about intimacy, vulnerability, and photography between people. Both Eliza’s project, Gravida, and Kaoly’s project I’m Sorry. Forgive Me. Thank You. I Love You, enter the realm of the vulnerable and explore the connections between us. Together we will contemplate how photography can deepen our connections to each other, and what changes in us when we make vulnerable images.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, February 19th, 7 pm ET

Join Rosie Villano and their mother Ann as they reflect on their ongoing inter-generational creative conversation about perception, people and the places they love. Using their “Between Bodies” portfolios Unearthed and Common Ground as a starting place, they will share their experiences together from a beloved house in Maine and their explorations in Mexico.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, February 12th, 7 pm ET

In what ways do your photographs help you pay your love forward into the world? Is creative attention a form of love? Can a photograph be a love letter? A year ago, the Kinship community gathered together to share images and stories in response to these questions. We feel called to return to these questions now more than ever. Join us for a community show & share that reflects on our creative attention and affection.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, February 5th, 7 pm ET

Join Erik Mace as he discusses his recently published photo essay, Fabian and Rose. Begun in 2019, his essay in Southern Cultures features photography and writing based on returning to his grandparents’ house in Missouri for the first time in thirty years. The essay navigates the complexities of family history, memory, and the elusive nature of truth, revealing the intimate details and textures of a home that held untold, or perhaps unknowable, stories.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, January 29th, 7 pm ET

Join us for a portfolio share with Frances Bukovsky of their in-process body of work, A Cherished Embrace of Iron and Water. This body of work asks how we can combine archival research and materials with an embodied photographic practice to explore the past, present, and potential future of the relationships that shape place. This conversation will be facillitated by Kaye Savage.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, January 22nd, 7 pm ET

Please join us for and inspiring conversation with folks from the National Parks Arts Foundation and the Shenandoah National Park Artist in Residence program. Learn about upcoming opportunities, open calls for applications, insights on what makes a great application, and how residencies can lead to additional opportunities like artist-run community workshops and museum exhibitions.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, January 15th , 7 pm ET

At Kinship, our weekly artist talks, calls for engagement, practice groups, and curated galleries are built around our community's emerging and changing needs. We are interested in learning more about what is working for you and what kinds of programs, themes, exhibitions and calls for engagement would best support your practice this year. Please lend your voice and wisdom to this dynamic conversation and help us shape our 2025 programming.

January 8th 2025 @ 7 pm ET on Zoom

What defines a body of work? What holds it together? When is it complete? After working together for nearly one year, seven members of the Pacing & Perseverance practice group will share their experiences of working on a number of long term projects and how they balanced their work alongside everything else that happens in life.

Wednesday, January 1st @ 7 pm ET

Join us for a spacious conversation and New Year’s Day community show & share. Together we will mark the end of 2024 and the start 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 for the coming year. Everyone is invited to share work.

December 18th @ 7 pm ET on Zoom

Join poet Meghan Sterling and seven Kinship photographers as they explore the ways that ekphrastic poetry can deepen our relationship with our own photographs and photography practice. While ekphrastic poetry is often defined as the writing of poetry about works of visual art, the tradition is truly focused on the close observation of objects and experiences. This makes ekphrastic poetry a beautiful venue for deepening one’s relationship to one’s photographs.

December 11th @ 7 pm ET on Zoom

Over seven meetings, this practice group explored relationships surrounding a focus of their choosing, considering physical, emotional and visual contexts, and responding to unexpected disruptions.Fungi, trails, trees, and other plants led to new ways of thinking about and sharing nature’s intelligence, empathy, and connections.

December 4th @ 7 pm ET via Zoom

Between January and November 2024, seven members of the Kinship Photography Collective gathered thirteen times to ‘reimagine’ loss and grief. Part of the year-long theme “Between Bodies,” this practice group wondered if there was a visual language for loss and how patiently dwelling with grief might also offer opportunities for nurturing community.

Wednesday, November 27th @ 7 pm ET on Zoom

Convergence, Parker J Pfister’s current exhibition, is guided by curiosity, wonder, time, and life experiences. Sending a probe into his vast archive of photographs, over 3 decades worth, Parker Pfister discovers deeper meanings and purpose in his work. Photographic prints are combined in a hands-on tactile way, creating new narratives and questions. A once straightforward photograph is now a complex conversation.

Wednesday, November 20th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

Please gather with us in the "tender light" of community as we share photographs from a time in our lives when we were struggling and the gentle light of love, beauty, or wholeness revealed itself to us through our photographic practice. Together we will explore the ways that photography can be a light, even, and sometimes especially, in darker moments.

Wednesday, November 13th @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Over the course of seven years, Tina Freeman photographed the Louisiana wetlands and Arctic and Antarctic glaciers. In Lamentations, Freeman pairs images from each place in a series of diptychs that function as little stories about climate change, ecological balance, and the connectedness of things across time and space. The large, color photographs in Lamentations make plain the crucial, threatening, and global dialogue between water in two physical states.

November 6th @ 7 pm ET on Zoom

In this practice group, participants explored the feelings of place. Guided by Trebbe Johnson, practice group participants worked with hyperawareness (or “fierce consciousness”) to more deeply explore the reactions that places stirred in them. Together they opened the lenses of their imaginations and emotional bodies to contemplate the profound relationships they have with locations that they hold and are held by them—creating images that reveal a powerful, often mysterious, and always intimate world. 

Wednesday, October 30th @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

How can we use the camera to deepen our relationship with our own bodies through curiosity and attention? Can we use the camera to help us make space for the complexities of being alive? This practice group began with practicing self-directed deep attention and curiosity and ultimately considered the ways that our relationship and understanding of our own bodies influence the ways that we hold relationships between bodies.

Wednesday, October 23rd @ 7 pm EDT on Zoom

Join us for a portfolio share with Lyn Swett Miller. This tender body of work questions the essence of reciprocity between humans and the land while exploring the ways in which a ‘green’ death can reveal the beauty of our relationship between the human body and the earth’s body. Together we will explore whether photography can help us find redemption and joy in previously unmentionable settings.

Wednesday, October 16th, at 7 pm ET on Zoom

It is time to weave our Between Bodies explorations into galleries, featured projects, exbhibitions, and collaborative shenanigans. Join us this Wednesday as we walk you through the submission process. Together we will begin building the schedule for community sharing, online galleries, and upcoming exhibitions.

Wednesday, October 9th, 7 pm ET on Zoom

Fall is here, and it is time to gather our community together to look for unique ways to weave our Between Bodies explorations and photographs into featured galleries, collaborative calls, and exhibitions. Do you have work in process that would be a good fit for our featured artist gallery? Would you like to curate a collection of work? Are there curators or editors you would like us to invite to our community to help interpret the work we have created? Please join us!